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[[Category:New Reviews|Humour]]==Humour==__NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreview|authorclass-"wikitable" cellpadding=Alain Mabanckou"15" <!-- INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE--><!-- van LENTE -->|title=Memoirs of a Porcupine-|ratingstyle=4"width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|genre=Literary Fiction[[image:1683690346.jpg|summarylink=The protagonist of this novel is an ordinary Congolese porcupine until Papa Kibandi performs an ancient ritual involving a hallucinogenic cocktail called ''mayamvumbi'', and transforms him into his son's harmful doublehttp://www. The insecure younger Kibandi becomes more and more embittered as his life goes on, and sends his porcupine to 'eat' anybody he feels the least bit threatened by, a process whereby that person's life essence is sucked out, killing them instantlyamazon. Over one hundred victims later and following his master's death at the hands of a vengeful baby, our narrator retires to the hollow of a baobab tree where he writes this confessionalco.|amazonukuk/dp/1683690346/ref=nosim?tag=<amazonuk>1846687675</amazonuk>}}thebookbag-21]]
{{newreview
|author=Tom Holt
|title=Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Sausages
|rating=5
|genre=Fantasy
|summary=Imagine a world where pigs can do quantum mechanics, and where female solicitors turn into chickens. Add a dry cleaner that moves (literally, from the roof tiles to the basement) from town to town every forty-eight hours, a couple of medieval knights who've fought every day for centuries, and a magical ring (or pencil sharpener, depending on the mood it's in). Stir in a bit of property developing, a thaumaturgical detective and an old man who lives in a cloud. Result? You haven't even begun to probe the depths of this crazy, absurd, complex and hilarious book.
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{{newreview|authorstyle=Steve Hely"vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|title=How I Became a Famous Novelist|rating=4|genre=General Fiction|summary=With an uncompromising title like 'How I Became a Famous Novelist', this clearly isn't intended to be a subtle book. So I can hardly complain when a cynical look at the writing industry swings raw punches in every direction. It just isn't my sort of humour, but equally, if you rave about '[[The Office' you will likely enjoy this book far more than I have done.|amazonukCon Artist by Fred Van Lente]]===<amazonuk>1849015724</amazonuk>}}
{{newreview[[image:4star.jpg|authorlink=Charles Lamb|title=Great FoodCategory: A Dissertation Upon Roast Pig and Other Essays|{{{rating=4|genre=Cookery}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime|summary=''A Dissertation Upon Roast Pig'' is a collection of food-related essays from the early 19th centuryCrime]], with a humorous bent. They're but a few pages each - a light read to bring a smile to your face, then on to the next little foodie treat.[[:Category:Humour|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241951003</amazonuk>}}Humour]]
{{newreview|author=ClientsFromHell.net|title=Clients From Hell|rating=4|genre=Humour|summary=Everyone who's worked as a freelancer has Comic-Cons are a story place of a client from hell wonder and sanctuary for many people, and when Comic book artist Mike Mason arrives at San Diego Comic- that person who asked Con, he's looking for something both that was impossibleand sanctuary with other fans and creators, wanted it done yesterday for a fraction plus the chance of the usual pricemaybe, or is just plain angry about the work producedmaybe reuniting with his ex. The website [http://www.clientsfromhell.net ClientsFromHell.net] has collated a number However, when his rival is found dead, Mike is forced to navigate every dark corner of such stories over the yearscon in order to clear his name – from cosplay flash mobs and intrusive fans to zombie obstacle courses – Mike must prove his innocence and, and has now published them as in doing so, may just unravel a dark secret behind a booklegendary industry creator.[[The Con Artist by Fred Van Lente|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0982473931</amazonuk>}}Full Review]]
{{newreview
|author=Manu Joseph
|title=Serious Men
|rating=4
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Ayyan Mani is a Dalit, an untouchable, stuck in a flat in Mumbai's slums but hoping, somehow, for a better future for his son. Working at the Insitute of Theory and Research he uses all his cunning and wiles to stay ahead of the game amongst the Brahmin scientists. Does he have the intelligence, and nerves, to convince everyone that his son, against all odds, is a genius?
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{{newreview<!-- Coulton -->|author=John Saunders-|titlestyle=The Vernham Chronicles"width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|rating=4[[image:1473669588.jpg|genrelink=Humour|summary=Set amidst the rolling British countryside around Vernbury Vale is the little village of Vernhamhttp://www. Anyone who lives in a village will recognise it immediately, with its cobbled streets and Tudor buildingsamazon. There was some damage during the war (which might, or might not have been down to a lighthouse folly constructed by a local landowner on his lake) but the gaps have been filled with some beautiful, er, mock Tudor buildingsco. Almost unique and nearly beautiful as the village is, it's not the star of The Vernham Chronicles. The stars are the people who live in Vernham.|amazonukuk/dp/1473669588/ref=nosim?tag=<amazonuk>1907499598</amazonuk>}}thebookbag-21]]
{{newreview
|author=Martin Millar
|title=The Good Fairies of New York
|rating=4
|genre=Fantasy
|summary=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 home. They have friends from Ireland with them, and all have the ability to startle the local squirrels. Elsewhere two innocent scallywag fairies fleeing Scotland have arrived, and adopted a human each. 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.
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{{newreview|authorstyle=Gervase Phinn"vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|title=Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Stars|rating=4|genre=Humour|summary=I spent many of my teenage years reading James Herriot's books, and I found that this collection of anecdotes and poems [[Falling Short by Gervase Phinn had a real flavour of Herriot about it. Perhaps it was just the setting, for Phinn was a school inspector in the Dales for many years, but I think he also has that knack of capturing a situation, and a character, and bringing out the humour without making the person appear ridiculous. Here he collates stories from his other books, some Christmassy and others not, and he relates them with several of his own poems interspersed between.|amazonukLex Coulton]]===<amazonuk>0141036435</amazonuk>}}
[[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:History{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]]{{newreview[[:Category:General Fiction|author=Simon Garfield|title=Just My TypeGeneral Fiction]], [[:Category: A Book About FontsHumour|rating=4.5|genre=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[[:Category:Women'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.s Fiction|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846683017</amazonuk>}}Women's Fiction]]
{{newreview|author=Bob Servant and Neil Forsyth|title=Bob Servant: Hero of Dundee|rating=3.5|genre=Humour|summary=After [[Delete This at Your Peril: One ManLex Coulton's Fearless Exchanges with the Internet Spammers by Bob Servant|bursting into public consciousness]] as the scourge of email spammersdebut novel is a story about mistakes, failures, Broughty Ferry's resident polymath Bob Servant has returnedand relationships. This timeThe main protagonist, he expands upon the colourful life only hinted at in his previous oeuvreFrances Pilgrim, Delete this at Your Peril. And what is a life it sixth form English teacher who has been. He steers us from his humble beginningsrecently fallen out with her best friend Jackson, a work colleague, his broken family and traumatic schooldays, through is grappling with the rise and fall increasingly eccentric behaviour of his window cleaning empire, and his role in Dundee's brutal cheeseburger warsher mother. Along This relationship is complicated by the way, we witness his struggles with, respectively, women (fact that Frances'skirt'), his simpleton sidekick Frank, and the demon drinks father disappeared at sea when she was five years old.[[Falling Short by Lex Coulton|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841589209</amazonuk>}}Full Review]]
{{newreview<!-- van LENTE -->|author=P K Munroe-|titlestyle=You Can Stick It"width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1683690346.jpg|ratinglink=3http://www.5|genreamazon.co.uk/dp/1683690346/ref=Humour|summarynosim?tag=Literary merit? Absolutely none!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<!-- Curran -->|author=PJ Vanston-|titlestyle=Crump"width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|rating=3[[image:1683690133.jpg|genrelink=General Fiction|summary=It's Kevin Crump's first day as a lecturer at Thames Metropolitan University - an ex-polytechnichttp://www. 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 studentsamazon. 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) madco.|amazonukuk/dp/1683690133/ref=nosim?tag=<amazonuk>1848762852</amazonuk>}}thebookbag-21]]
{{newreview
|author=John Lennon
|title=In His Own Write and A Spaniard in the Works
|rating=3
|genre=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). Some of them were seen by Tom Maschler, literary editor at Jonathan Cape, who encouraged him to produce more. The results were published in two very successful short books in 1964 and 1965.
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{{newreview|authorstyle=John Lindsay"vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|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, [[My Lady's Choosing by Kitty Curran 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.|amazonukLarissa Zageris]]===<amazonuk>1402778279</amazonuk>}}
[[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{newreview|author=L C Tyler|title=The Herring In The Library|rating=4.5}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Humour|genre=Crime|summary=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 factHumour]], 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.[[:Category:Historical Fiction|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0230714684</amazonuk>}}Historical Fiction]]
{{newreview|author=A J Jacobs|title=My Experimental Life|rating=3You are a lass of twenty eight. Plucky, penniless and in Regency era London the race is on to find a suitable suitor - or else doom yourself to life as an eternal spinster.5|genre=Humour|summary=A J Jacobs has Along your journey you'll be accompanied by Lady Evangeline Youngblood - a fiesty noble eager to save you from a life alone, and fired by a reputation rogueish sense for setting himself onerous tasksadventure. His first book was about reading When it comes to suitors though, you'll have to make the entire Encyclopedia Britannica; his second detailed a year spent according to ultimate decision between witty, pretty and wealthy Sir Benedict Granville, wholesome, rugged and caring Captain Angus MacTaggart, or the Biblical preceptsmad, bad and terrifyingly sexy Lord Garraway Craven. In My Experimental LifeWith orphans, werewolves, long lost lovers and ancient Egyptian artifcats along the way, he recounts nine briefer episodes of living outside his comfort zoneit's clear this isn't going to be an easy decision...[[My Lady's Choosing by Kitty Curran and Larissa Zageris|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099547422</amazonuk>}}Full Review]]
{{newreview<!-- Jester -->|author=Seth Grahame-Smith|titlestyle=Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter"width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"||rating=3[[image:Jester_Forever.5jpg|genre=Humourleft|summarylink='Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shorehttps://www.' That quote, on the Statue of Liberty, was probably not designed with the inclusion of vampires in mindamazon. 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 glassesco. 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.|amazonukuk/gp/product/1510704361?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=<amazonuk>1849014086</amazonuk>}}1510704361]]
{{newreview
|author=Jane Austen, Seth Grahame-Smith and Tony Lee
|title=Pride 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 ''the risen undead'' it will become a series of books, inspiring others, and/or lead to the same story being published in many different guises. 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 remains. And this time it’s in graphic novel form.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848566948</amazonuk>
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{{newreview|authorstyle=Carl McInerney"vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|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 [[Forever After: 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.|amazonukdark comedy by David Jester]]===<amazonuk>1849391114</amazonuk>}}
[[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{newreview|author=Paul Magrs|title=Hell's Belles|rating=3.5}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Paranormal|genre=HumourParanormal]], [[:Category:Horror|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 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 seriesHorror]], shows him returning to form with the promise we saw in the first of the series.[[:Category:Fantasy|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0755346467</amazonuk>}}Fasntasy]]
{{newreview|author=Valerie Thomas Michael Holland is a cocky and brash young man who dies and Korky Paul|title=Winnie's Jokes|rating=2gets made the offer of his lifetime; immortality.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Who turns off We follow Michael, a grim reaper and his friends Chip (a stoner tooth fairy) and Naff (a stoner in the lights at Halloween? The lights witch. What does an Australian witch ride records department) as they grapple with their long lives and finding a clean surface to sit on? A broomerangin their flat. Yep, it's [[Forever After: a joke book.dark comedy by David Jester|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0192729063</amazonuk>}}Full Review]]
{{newreview<!-- Stibbe -->|author=Nick Wadley-|titlestyle=Man + Dog"width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"||rating=4[[image:Stibbe_Xmas.5jpg|genre=Humourleft|summarylink=Throughout my life I've lived with dogs or deeply regretted the fact that I lacked a canine companionhttps://www. 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 otheramazon.|amazonukco.uk/gp/product/0241309824?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=<amazonuk>1564785521</amazonuk>}}0241309824]]
{{newreview
|author=The Harvard Lampoon
|title=Nightlight: A Parody of Twilight
|rating=3.5
|genre=Humour
|summary=Most people will have heard of the worldwide phenomenon that is [[Twilight by Stephenie Meyer|Twilight]]. 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).
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{{newreview|authorstyle=Steven Lowe and Alan McArthur |title=Is it Just Me or Has the Shit Hit the Fan?"vertical-align: 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 nambytop; text-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.align: left;"|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847443656</amazonuk>}} {{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[[An Almost Perfect Christmas by Nina Stibbe]]=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.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0718155149</amazonuk>}}
[[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{newreview|author=The Vampire Miles Proctor|title=The New Vampire's Handbook|rating=3.5}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Humour|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.[[:Category:Short Stories|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0224086464</amazonuk>}}Short Stories]]
{{newreview|author=David O'DohertyChristmas – 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, Claudia O'Doherty and Mike Ahern|title=100 Facts About Pandas|rating=3if that failed the hair-dryer shoved inside it treatment was your next best bet.5|genre=Humour|summary=Sometimes the title says Nowadays it 's all having to make sure it's suitably free- this range and organic – but not too organic that you can go and visit it, and get too friendly with it to want to eat it. Christmas, though, is of course also a book time of great boons. It's cash in hand for a lot of plump people who can hire red suits and beards, it was always a godsend for postmen with 100 facts about pandas. Sometimes all the thank-you need letters to note the author too aunties you saw twice a decade that your parents made you write out in long- David O'Doherty won an Edinburgh Comedy Awardhand as a child, so this is a book and as for the makers of a 100 silly Meltis Newberry Fruits – well, did they even try and untrue facts about pandas.sell them any other time of the year? [[An Almost Perfect Christmas by Nina Stibbe|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0224086324</amazonuk>}}Full Review]]
{{newreview<!-- Doescher -->|author=Richard Horne -|titlestyle=A is for Armageddon"width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"||rating=2[[image:Doescher_Will.5jpg|genre=Humourleft|summarylink=The world is definitely going to hell in a handcarthttps://www. We're only just preventing lethal global warming by having a credit crunch that has prevented a lot of big building, air travel, and consumerismamazon. The population is getting so obese there is no room for any more of us co.uk/gp/product/159474985X?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag- and add that to the exploding population statistics, and it's never going to look better. And don't get me started on where all the bees have gone...|amazonuk21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=<amazonuk>0224086197</amazonuk>}}159474985X]]
{{newreview
|author=James May
|title=Car Fever: Dispatches From Behind The Wheel
|rating=4
|genre=Lifestyle
|summary=Now, way back when I was younger, 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, and the three main people from the show are approaching superstar status, with their amenable personalities, awkward wardrobe choices and trenchant laddish charms. 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.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340994533</amazonuk>
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{{newreview|authorstyle=Jane Austen and Seth Grahame"vertical-Smith align: top; text-align: left;"|title=Pride and Prejudice and Zombies|rating=4.5|genre=Humour|summary=Ah, the benefits to a good book of a classic first line. [[William Shakespeare'Call me Ishmael.' 'It was a bright cold day in April, and s the clocks were striking thirteen.' Who can forget Iain Banks' 'It was Force Doth Awaken: Star Wars Part the day my grandmother exploded'? Or those timeless words Seventh by Jane Austen, 'It is a truth universally acknowledged that a zombie in possession of brains must be in want of more brains.'|amazonukIan Doescher]]===<amazonuk>1594743347</amazonuk>}}
[[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{newreview|author=Harry Hill|title=Tim The Tiny Horse At Large|rating=4|genre=Humour|summary=It's been a while since Tim and Fly's }}} Star Reviews]] [[Tim the Tiny Horse by Harry Hill:Category:Science Fiction|last adventuresScience Fiction]], 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.Category:Humour|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571244157</amazonuk>}}Humour]]
{{newreview|author=Spike Milligan|title=The Magical World 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 Milligan|rating=4machinations most foul, rulers most evil and rebellious heroes and heroines most sturdy.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Some people you just You may or may not have to love. Itnoticed the cinematic version of his original stage play for ''s the law. Spike Milligan was always fantastic, and heThe Force Doth Awaken's much missed. He's got , but here at last we get the perfect mix of nonsenseactual script, complete with annoying-in-different-ways-to-before droids anew, heartreturning heroes from elsewhere in his oeuvre, and surreal humourpeople keeping it in the family til it hurts. He speaks 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 people of all ages, and hepart seven – surely making this over twice as good… [[William Shakespeare's just plain lovely. the Force Doth Awaken: Star Wars Part the Seventh by Ian Doescher|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1905264844</amazonuk>}}Full Review]]
{{newreview<!-- Goss -->|author=Sam Savage-|titlestyle=The Cry of the Sloth"width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"||rating=3[[image:Goss_600.5jpg|genre=General Fictionleft|summarylink=Meet Andrew Whittakerhttps://www. 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 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 matteramazon. He would much prefer to be left alone in front of his little Olivetti typewriter and create artco. He runs a literary journal, of a kind, called "Soap", which nouk/gp/product/1785942719?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-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.|amazonuk21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=<amazonuk>0297856499</amazonuk>}}1785942719]]
{{newreview
|author=Christopher Moore
|title=You Suck
|rating=4
|genre=Humour
|summary=You know that old adage about books and covers? Well this is a case in point. The title isn't great, but the cover design for the paperback imprint is, like, duh!, the pits. It is so uncool…so unrep-resent-ative of the book. This is not a cocktail thing. Not even a "Bloody Mary" thing.
Well, except for the tiny bit that is, but you'll discover that in due course.|amazonukstyle=<amazonuk>1841498092</amazonuk>"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|author=Hugh Murr and Sid Nigtures |title=Cyber Sign Offs|rating=2|genre=Humour|summary=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}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Children'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 s Rhymes and age, and not a website?Verse|Children'. But no. This is a collection of dialogues between two people - shall we call them Sue deNim s Rhymes and Allie ByeVerse]], who have a line or two to say to each other[[:Category:Science Fiction|Science Fiction]], and a made-up name (sorry, make that May Dupp-Name) with which to sign it off. Much jolly nonsense ensues.[[:Category:Humour|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1904312497</amazonuk>}}Humour]]
{{newreview|author=Tim Fitzhigham |title=All at Sea: One ManConsider the Doctor. One Bathtub. One Very Bad Idea: Conquering the Channel 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 Piece few novelty gifts for some of them, say, for example, whimsical books of Plumbing|rating=4.5|genre=Travel|summary=Once more my verse that pithily encapsulate the life is made easy by saying this book does just what it claims on the cover - takes of a narrator Time Lord and that of zestysome of his friends and enemies. As luck would have it, wacky humourhe has the space in his TARDIS to stock up in advance, throws him into an unlikely situation (a bath) and gets so my advice to him – sorry, her – would be to pop along to do something unusual (row it across the Channel his local Earth- based book emporium and then beyond)get himself ready. This despite 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 fact he was the world's worst sculler at Universitysame.[[Doctor Who: Now We Are Six Hundred: A Collection of Time Lord Verse (Dr Who) by James Goss and Russell T Davies|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848090269</amazonuk>}}Full Review]]
{{newreview<!-- Ingram -->|author=Simon Brett-|titlestyle=Blotto, Twinks and the Ex"width: 10%; vertical-King's Daughteralign: top; text-align: center;"|rating=4[[image:Ingram_Kammie.jpg|genre=Humourleft|summarylink=There can be few people who have written eighty books without me even having picked up one of themhttps://www. 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 investigatingamazon. 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 partyco.|amazonukuk/gp/product/1785451995?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=<amazonuk>1845299353</amazonuk>}}1785451995]]
{{newreview
|author=Karl Pilkington
|title=Karlology
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|summary=The Radio Five film critic Mark Kermode has a rule when reviewing comedies. If he laughs more than five times then the film deserves its billing as a comedy. 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 book.
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{{newreview|authorstyle=Joe Stretch"vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|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 [[Conversations 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?|amazonukKammie by Annie Ingram]]===<amazonuk>0099532077</amazonuk>}}
[[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{newreview|author=Michael Marr|title=Three Jumpers|rating=5|genre=Literary Fiction}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Pets|summary=When Bardolph Middle placed an ad in the paper proclaiming he was a writerPets]], he thought he might get 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…[[:Category:Humour|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1906558485</amazonuk>}}Humour]]
{{newreview|author=Rosy Barnes|title=Sadomasochism 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 Accountants|rating=3|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=Humour's very personala 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, isn't it? If but most dogs will be perfectly willing to give their time to teach you dig films like ''Shaun of the Dead'' and ''Hot Fuzz'', I predict all you'll love this chick lit parodyhave to do is listen. It's anarchic Annie has studied hard: Kammie has trained her well 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 pair have allowed us to share some of moments in Rosy Barnes' first noveltheir conversations.[[Conversations with Kammie by Annie Ingram|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0714531812</amazonuk>}}Full Review]]
{{newreview<!-- Harris -->|author=Lady Annabel Goldsmith-|titlestyle=Copper"width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: A Dog's Lifecenter;"|rating=4[[image:Harris_Glass.jpg|genrelink=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?http://www. Here he tells his story in his own words as transcribed for him by his owneramazon. He's got his own priorities – and obedience is not one of them – along with a roving spiritco. 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.|amazonukuk/dp/1908943823/ref=nosim?tag=<amazonuk>0751538205</amazonuk>}}thebookbag-21]]
{{newreview
|author=Tim Moore
|title=I Believe in Yesterday: My Adventures in Living History
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|summary=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 across. 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 re-enactment.
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{{newreview|authorstyle=L Vaughan Spencer"vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|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 Breaking of Motivitality'', this is a dictionary of achievement from a man who can teach you how to succeed like a toothless budgie.|amazonukLiam Glass by Charles Harris]]===<amazonuk>1846681634</amazonuk>}}
{{newreview|author=Mark Crick [[image:3star.jpg|titlelink=Sartre's SinkCategory: The Great Writers' Complete Book of DIY|{{{rating=4}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime|genre=Crime]], [[:Category:Humour|summary=''Sartre's Sink'' comprises fourteen short story parodies of some 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 (Milan Kundera). 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 and I speak as someone who is rather less versed in the writings of this famous lot than I care to admit.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847080472</amazonuk>}}Humour]]
{{newreview|author=Eric Nakagawa|title=I Can Has Cheezburger |rating=4|genre=Pets|summary=''I Can Has Cheezburger'', Teenager Liam Glass is a clever and witty anthology of some of the best pictures mugged and captions stabbed yards from his Camden flat. As the fantastic [http://icanhascheezburger.com/ lolcats website] of boy lies comatose, desperate journalist Jason Worthington scrabbles for the same name. The site has been growing in popularity in recent monthsinside 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 so it was inevitable that a book would soon hit gym-owner Royland simply finds himself in the wrong place at the shelveswrong time. Choosing which pics to include We follow this host of ensemble characters in the book could not have been an easy taska bleak, and some kaleidoscopic satire of the old favourites are there, alongside some less well known onesmodern media.[[The Breaking of Liam Glass by Charles Harris|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340977574</amazonuk>}}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:{{{newreviewrating}}} 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|authorFull 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]]===Ian Crofton [[image:4.5star.jpg|titlelink=History Without 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 window. It's not a coincidence that it's the same day she finds Queen Elizabeth I in the pantry and the Boring BitsBard 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 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=5"width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Jordan_Tiny.jpg|genrelink=Historyhttp://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1760293814/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] |summarystyle=I was never one "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 historya 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, and in fact 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|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Travel|Travel]], [[:Category:Humour|Humour]] Meet the dregs Isles of Scilly. (I know they should be called that – the author provides a history teacher 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 tatters when I scraped through 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 Drust bucket within years. StillThey're so wee, and so idyllic-seeming, especially at night, history you can be mistaken for thinking there would be no need for a police presence. But there is an odd thing – written 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 winners arrival of course, the relatives and annoyingly biased in my mind towards the plainfood shopping delivery. ThereLittle does Mum know that 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]] | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The Virgin Mary's no real reason 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 order 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 Henry VIIIChristmas as a child. [[The Virgin Mary's six wivesGot 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="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, but we can only relish read on. In these pages you too will see that Romeo had lots of options en route to hitting the one credited with polydactylismbottle. Likewise, she could have turned away from her predestined path at no end of junctures. And to what result? Well, happy marriage and a third nipple kid called Ben, because the leads have just banged people's heads together and whatnot stopped the quarrelling, or Death by Tybalt (the second onehim) or a long life running an establishment curing murderous women, in fact – whoever that wassuch as a Lady M (her).[[Romeo and/or Juliet by Ryan North|Full Review]] |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847243746</amazonuk!-- DO NOT REMOVE ANYTHING BELOW THIS LINE -->}|}
