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[[Category:New Reviews|Humour]]==Humour==__NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreview|authorclass-"wikitable" cellpadding=Tom Sharpe"15" <!-- INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE--><!-- van LENTE -->|title=The Wilt Inheritance-|ratingstyle=3.5"width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|genre=Humour[[image:1683690346.jpg|summarylink=Wilt is stuck in a job he doesn't want – teaching a subject he's not keen on to people for whom he has no affection – at one of the new Universitieshttp://www. We used to know them as technical collegesamazon. But he can't afford to lose it because of the expense of keeping the quads at an expensive school and of maintaining his snobbish wife, Evaco. It's Eva though who signs him up for a job in the summer holidays – tutoring the stepuk/dp/1683690346/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-son of a local aristocrat in the hope of getting him into Cambridge – and particularly Porterhouse College. It's not long before Wilt discovers that the boy totes a gun a shoots at anything which moves – or even doesn't move – and that he's an idiot who would probably struggle to get a bus to Cambridge.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099493136</amazonuk>}}21]]

{{newreview|authorstyle=Tom Holt"vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"||title=Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Sausages|rating=5|genre=Fantasy|summary[[The Con Artist by Fred Van Lente]]==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.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841495077</amazonuk>}}

[[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{newreview|author=Steve Hely|title=How I Became a Famous Novelist|rating=4|genre=General Fiction}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime|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 humourCrime]], but equally, if you rave about 'The Office' you will likely enjoy this book far more than I have done.[[:Category:Humour|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849015724</amazonuk>}}Humour]]

{{newreview|author=Charles Lamb|title=Great Food: A Dissertation Upon Roast Pig and Other Essays|rating=4|genre=Cookery|summary=''A Dissertation Upon Roast Pig'' is Comic-Cons are a collection place of foodwonder and sanctuary for many people, and when Comic book artist Mike Mason arrives at San Diego Comic-related essays from Con, he's looking for both that and sanctuary with other fans and creators, plus the early 19th centurychance of maybe, just maybe reuniting with a humorous benthis ex. They're but a few pages each - a light read However, when his rival is found dead, Mike is forced to navigate every dark corner of the con in order to bring a smile clear his name – from cosplay flash mobs and intrusive fans to your facezombie obstacle courses – Mike must prove his innocence and, then on to the next little foodie treatin doing so, may just unravel a dark secret behind a legendary industry creator.[[The Con Artist by Fred Van Lente|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241951003</amazonuk>}}Full Review]]

{{newreview<!-- Coulton -->|author=Manu Joseph-|titlestyle=Serious Men"width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|rating=4[[image:1473669588.jpg|genrelink=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 sonhttp://www.amazon. Working at the Insitute of Theory and Research he uses all his cunning and wiles to stay ahead of the game amongst the Brahmin scientistsco. Does he have the intelligence, and nerves, to convince everyone that his son, against all odds, is a geniusuk/dp/1473669588/ref=nosim?|amazonuktag=<amazonuk>1848543085</amazonuk>}}thebookbag-21]]

{{newreview|authorstyle=Martin Millar"vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"||title=The Good Fairies of New York|rating=4|genre=Fantasy|summary[[Falling Short by Lex Coulton]]==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.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749954205</amazonuk>}}

[[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{newreview|author=Gervase Phinn{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|title=TwinkleGeneral Fiction]], Twinkle, Little Stars[[:Category:Humour|rating=4|genre=Humour]], [[:Category:Women's Fiction|summary=I spent many of my teenage years reading James HerriotWomen's books, and I found that this collection of anecdotes and poems 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.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141036435</amazonuk>}}Fiction]]

[[Category:History]]{{newreview|author=Simon Garfield|title=Just My Type: A Book About Fonts|rating=4Lex Coulton's debut novel is a story about mistakes, failures, and relationships.5|genre=Humour|summary=A quality typeface The main protagonist, Frances Pilgrim, is a bit like sixth form English teacher who has recently fallen out with her best friend Jackson, a good referee at a football match in that you only really notice them if something has gone wrong. A referee work colleague, and is there to facilitate the players on grappling with the pitch, not to be the star increasingly eccentric behaviour of the show (though watching Match of the Day these past few weeks you'd often beg to differ)her mother. So it This relationship is with typefaces. A good type helps complicated by the reader, enhances the flow and makes the viewing experience easy and simplefact that Frances's father disappeared at sea when she was five years old. Well sort of.[[Falling Short by Lex Coulton|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846683017</amazonuk>}}Full Review]]

{{newreview<!-- van LENTE -->|author=Bob Servant and Neil Forsyth-|titlestyle=Bob Servant"width: Hero of Dundee|rating=3.510%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|genre=Humour|summary=After [[Delete This at Your Perilimage: One Man's Fearless Exchanges with the Internet Spammers by Bob Servant1683690346.jpg|bursting into public consciousness]] as the scourge of email spammers, Broughty Ferry's resident polymath Bob Servant has returnedlink=http://www. This time, he expands upon the colourful life only hinted at in his previous oeuvre, Delete this at Your Perilamazon. And what a life it has beenco. 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.|amazonukuk/dp/1683690346/ref=nosim?tag=<amazonuk>1841589209</amazonuk>}}thebookbag-21]]

Ah[[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime|Crime]], so it's non-fiction? Well, calling it ''fact'' would be stretching things a little too far...[[:Category:Humour|Humour]]

SoComic-Cons are a place of wonder and sanctuary for many people, come on thenand 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. What ''However, when his rival is found dead, Mike is'' it?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. [[The Con Artist by Fred Van Lente|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007362188</amazonuk>}}Full Review]]

{{newreview<!-- Curran -->|author=Axel Scheffler-|titlestyle=How to Keep a Pet Squirrel"width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|rating=4[[image:1683690133.jpg|genrelink=Humour|summary=So, how do you keep a pet squirrel? Well, the simple answer is that you don'thttp://www. They're wild animals and not at all suitable for keeping in captivity, but accepted thinking didn't always run that wayamazon. 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 squirrelco. His inventive mind came up with these beautiful illustrations to accompany the text and if you're looking for an amusing gift for an animaluk/dp/1683690133/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-loving adult then this book could well be the answer.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571255981</amazonuk>}}21]]

{{newreview|authorstyle=John Lennon"vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|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 [[My Lady's Choosing 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 Kitty Curran and 1965.|amazonukLarissa Zageris]]===<amazonuk>0099530422</amazonuk>}}

[[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{newreview|author=John Lindsay|title=Emails From An Asshole|rating=4}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Humour|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.[[:Category:Historical Fiction|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1402778279</amazonuk>}}Historical Fiction]]

{{newreview|author=L C Tyler|title=The Herring In The Library|rating=4You are a lass of twenty eight.5|genre=Crime|summary=TallPlucky, elegant Ethelred 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. Along your journey you'll be accompanied by Lady Evangeline Youngblood - a gentlemanfiesty noble eager to save you from a life alone, and fired by a third-rate authorrogueish sense for adventure. ElsieWhen it comes to suitors though, his literary agentyou'll have to make the ultimate decision between witty, is short pretty and dumpywealthy Sir Benedict Granville, wholesome, rugged and not afraid to speak her mind. It is Elsiecaring Captain Angus MacTaggart, in factor the mad, who constantly assures her client he only occasionally aspires to the giddy heights of being second-ratebad and terrifyingly sexy Lord Garraway Craven. This could be the business partnership from hellWith orphans, werewolves, but not only do these two seem to get long lost lovers and ancient Egyptian artifcats alongthe way, they even manage it's clear this isn't going to solve crimes togetherbe an easy decision. In this, the third outing for L C Tyler.. [[My Lady's eccentric sleuths, we are provided with a locked room mystery, a cast of possible villains of the most stereotypical type, Choosing by Kitty Curran and a fresh, funny tale which will make you laugh so much you'll get a stitch.Larissa Zageris|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0230714684</amazonuk>}}Full Review]]

{{newreview<!-- Jester -->|author=A J Jacobs-|titlestyle=My Experimental Life"width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"||rating=3[[image:Jester_Forever.5jpg|genre=Humourleft|summarylink=A J Jacobs has a reputation for setting himself onerous taskshttps://www. His first book was about reading the entire Encyclopedia Britannica; his second detailed a year spent according to the Biblical preceptsamazon. In My Experimental Life, he recounts nine briefer episodes of living outside his comfort zoneco.|amazonukuk/gp/product/1510704361?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=<amazonuk>0099547422</amazonuk>}}1510704361]]

{{newreview|authorstyle=Jane Austen, Seth Grahame"vertical-align: top; text-Smith and Tony Leealign: left;"|title=Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: The Graphic Novel|rating=3|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=It is [[Forever After: 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.|amazonukdark comedy by David Jester]]===<amazonuk>1848566948</amazonuk>}}

[[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{newreview|author=Carl McInerney|title=The Funniest Football Joke Book Ever|rating=3.5}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Paranormal|genre=Confident ReadersParanormal]], [[:Category:Horror|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 notHorror]], but it's not too bad.[[:Category:Fantasy|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849391114</amazonuk>}}Fasntasy]]

{{newreview|author=Paul Magrs|title=Hell's Belles|rating=3.5|genre=Humour|summary=The idea behind this series of novels Michael Holland is quite enchanting a cocky and amusing. Frankenstein's daughter is living brash young man who dies 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 gets made the original idea showed huge promise, I felt that the author has rather overdone it in terms offer of output, in his desire to capitalise on his original successlifetime; immortality. Book two in the series was quite disappointingWe follow Michael, relying on sensationalism rather than adequate plot a grim reaper and character development. Book three was an improvement-his friends Chip (a stoner tooth fairy) and I'm delighted to report that this, the fourth book Naff (a stoner in the series, shows him returning records department) as they grapple with their long lives and finding a clean surface to form with the promise we saw sit on in the first of the seriestheir flat.[[Forever After: a dark comedy by David Jester|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0755346467</amazonuk>}}Full Review]]

{{newreview<!-- Stibbe -->|author=Valerie Thomas and Korky Paul-|titlestyle=Winnie's Jokes"width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"||rating=2[[image:Stibbe_Xmas.5jpg|genre=Confident Readersleft|summarylink=Who turns off the lights at Halloween? The lights witchhttps://www. What does an Australian witch ride on? A broomerangamazon. Yep, it's a joke bookco.|amazonukuk/gp/product/0241309824?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=<amazonuk>0192729063</amazonuk>}}0241309824]]

{{newreview|authorstyle=The Harvard Lampoon"vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|title=Nightlight: A Parody of Twilight |rating=3.5|genre=Humour|summary=Most people will have heard of the worldwide phenomenon that is [[Twilight An Almost Perfect Christmas by Stephenie Meyer|TwilightNina Stibbe]]. 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?[[image: 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 floor4.'' Surely that is the wackiest, most inappropriate simile for the credit crunch and all it has done for the world5star. 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.jpg|amazonuklink=<amazonuk>1847443656</amazonuk>Category:{{{rating}} {{newreview|author=Eoin Colfer|title=And Another Thing ... Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy} Star Reviews]] [[:Category: Part Six of Three (Hitchhikers Guide 6) Humour|rating=3.5|genre=Science Fiction|summary=Of all the big books announced for this yearHumour]], 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.[[:Category:Short Stories|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0718155149</amazonuk>}}Short Stories]]

{{newreview|author=The Vampire Miles Proctor|title=The New Vampire's Handbook|rating=3Christmas – the time of traditional trauma.5|genre=Humour|summary=I shall start with You only have to think about the turkey for that – once upon a prediction. I will not become a vampiretime it was leaving it sat on the downstairs loo to defrost overnight, for this imminent Hallowe'en, any festive fancy dress parties, or indeed for life as and if that failed the lifeless undeadhair-dryer shoved inside it treatment was your next best bet. I will Nowadays it's all having to make sure it's suitably free-range and organic – but not need tips on filing my fangstoo organic that you can go and visit it, or how and get too friendly with it to want to divert attention from the fact I cannot eat human food at dinner partiesit. Me and my reflection Christmas, though, is of course also a time of great boons. It's cash in mirrors will remain intact. But hand for those a lot of you reading this at night, somewhere, flameproof cape at handplump people who can hire red suits and beards, it was always a godsend for postmen with all the thank-you letters to aunties you saw twice a decade that your distaste of garlicparents made you write out in long-hand as a child, publicity and presumably as for the anaemicmakers of Meltis Newberry Fruits – well, this is did they even try and sell them any other time of the sterling how-to lifestyle guide.year? [[An Almost Perfect Christmas by Nina Stibbe|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0224086464</amazonuk>}}Full Review]]

{{newreview<!-- Doescher -->|author=David O'Doherty, Claudia O'Doherty and Mike Ahern-|titlestyle=100 Facts About Pandas"width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Doescher_Will.jpg|ratingleft|link=3https://www.5|genreamazon.co.uk/gp/product/159474985X?ie=Humour|summaryUTF8&tag=Sometimes the title says it all thebookbag- 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.|amazonuk21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=<amazonuk>0224086324</amazonuk>}}159474985X]]

{{newreview|authorstyle=James May"vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|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[[William Shakespeare've sprung their media entities from out of s the studio, into other TV programmes, and Force Doth Awaken: Star Wars Part 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.|amazonukSeventh by Ian Doescher]]===<amazonuk>0340994533</amazonuk>}}

{{newreview|author=Jane Austen and Seth Grahame-Smith |title=Pride and Prejudice and Zombies|rating=[[image:4.55star.jpg|genrelink=HumourCategory:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Science Fiction|summary=AhScience Fiction]], 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.'[[:Category:Humour|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1594743347</amazonuk>}}Humour]]

{{newreview|author=Harry Hill|title=Tim A long time ago, in a galaxy far away, there was a man called William Shakespeare, who was able to create a series of dramatic histories full of machinations most foul, rulers most evil and rebellious heroes and heroines most sturdy. You may or may not have noticed the cinematic version of his original stage play for ''The Tiny Horse At Large|rating=4|genre=Humour|summary=ItForce Doth Awaken's been a while since Tim and Fly's [[Tim , but here at last we get the Tiny Horse by Harry Hill|last adventures]]actual script, and changes are afoot complete with annoying-in Tim's tiny world: Fly is getting married -different-ways-to -before droids anew, returning heroes from elsewhere in his girlfriend. Tim's a little worried because they've only known each other for a week. The marriage goes aheadoeuvre, and Tim finds himself kicking his heels, so he gets a petpeople 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 brief episodes in Force Doth Awaken: Star Wars Part the life of a horse who lives in a matchbox continue.Seventh by Ian Doescher|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571244157</amazonuk>}}Full Review]]

{{newreview<!-- Goss -->|author=Spike Milligan-|titlestyle=The Magical World of Milligan"width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"||rating=4[[image:Goss_600.5jpg|genre=Confident Readersleft|summarylink=Some people you just have to lovehttps://www. It's the lawamazon. Spike Milligan was always fantastic, and he's much missedco. 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. |amazonukuk/gp/product/1785942719?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=<amazonuk>1905264844</amazonuk>}}1785942719]]

{{newreview|authorstyle=Christopher Moore"vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|title=You Suck|rating=4|genre=Humour|summary=You know that old adage about books [[Doctor Who: Now We Are Six Hundred: A Collection of Time Lord Verse (Dr Who) by James Goss 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. Russell T Davies]]===

Well, except for the tiny bit that is, but you'll discover that in due course[[image:4.5star.jpg|amazonuklink=<amazonuk>1841498092</amazonuk>Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Children's Rhymes and Verse|Children's Rhymes and Verse]], [[:Category:Science Fiction|Science Fiction]], [[:Category:Humour|Humour]]

{{newreview|author=Hugh Murr Consider the Doctor. Just how many birthday 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 Christmas gifts must he have to this bookhand out each year, before I opened it at least. I had assumed it was were he to keep in touch with even half of his companions? He would certainly need a collection few novelty gifts for some of real-life on-line signatures - we've all seen them, those straplines people have on all their forum postssay, for example, whimsical books of verse that pithily encapsulate the life of a Time Lord and that of some of his friends and enemies. The obvious response As luck would have been along it, he has the lines of 'fair enoughspace in his TARDIS to stock up in advance, so my advice to him – sorry, but why is this a her – would be to pop along to his local Earth-based book in this day emporium and age, and not a website?get himself ready. And if you'. But no. This is re working on a collection of dialogues between two people - shall we call them Sue deNim and Allie Byeshorter timescale, who have with a line or two to say to each othershorter lifespan, and a made-up name thinking perhaps just one gift season ahead, well my advice is pretty much the same. [[Doctor Who: Now We Are Six Hundred: A Collection of Time Lord Verse (sorry, make that May Dupp-NameDr Who) with which to sign it off. Much jolly nonsense ensues.by James Goss and Russell T Davies|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1904312497</amazonuk>}}Full Review]]

{{newreview<!-- Ingram -->|author=Tim Fitzhigham -|titlestyle=All at Sea"width: One Man. One Bathtub. One Very Bad Idea10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: Conquering the Channel in a Piece of Plumbingcenter;"|[[image:Ingram_Kammie.jpg|ratingleft|link=4https://www.5|genreamazon.co.uk/gp/product/1785451995?ie=Travel|summaryUTF8&tag=Once more my life is made easy by saying this book does just what it claims on the cover thebookbag- takes a narrator of zesty, wacky humour, throws him into an unlikely situation (a bath) and gets him to do something unusual (row it across the Channel - and then beyond). This despite the fact he was the world's worst sculler at University.|amazonuk21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=<amazonuk>1848090269</amazonuk>}}1785451995]]

 | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Conversations with Kammie by Annie Ingram]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{newreview{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Pets|Pets]], [[:Category:Humour|Humour]] It was something of a relief when I encountered Annie Ingram and her cocker spaniel Kammie. You see, Annie knows something which has been self-evident to me for a long time: dogs are perfectly capable of communicating with humans and not just on a level of food!, walk! or play!. You do require extensive training to become fluent, but most dogs will be perfectly willing to give their time to teach you and all you have to do is listen. Annie has studied hard: Kammie has trained her well and the pair have allowed us to share some of their conversations. [[Conversations with Kammie by Annie Ingram|authorFull Review]] <!-- Harris -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Harris_Glass.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1908943823/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The Breaking of Liam Glass by Charles Harris]]===Simon Brett [[image:3star.jpg|titlelink=BlottoCategory:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime|Crime]], Twinks [[:Category:Humour|Humour]] Teenager Liam Glass is mugged and stabbed yards from his Camden flat. As the Exboy 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-King's Daughterelection, 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|ratinglink=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1683690222/ref=nosim?tag=4thebookbag-21]]  |genrestyle=Humour"vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Ten Dead Comedians: A Murder Mystery by Fred Van Lente]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|summarylink=There Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Humour|Humour]] Nine comedians are invited to a remote Caribbean island under the guise of working with Dustin Walker, a comedic legend. Each fits neatly into one of the archetypal comic stereotypes: Steve, the washed-up has-been who has fallen far from his early days; Zoe, the rising female star with a new stand-up special coming soon; Dante, who went from being a kid on the streets to the hardest working road comic in the business; Oliver, the child-like prop comic who can be few people 't get any respect from his peers; Janet, the insult comic who have written eighty books without me even having picked up one 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 themlight 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. At leastuk/dp/1788037006/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Elizabeth, William... and at lastMe by S Lynn Scott]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Humour|Humour]] Ally is an ordinary woman with teenage children, a 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 redressed their own ideas about that fault ! [[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 Simon Brettdeceit 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 have come 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 conclusion split and the awkwardness of the girls' schoolteacher being the other woman for a start. Then there are 79 more 's that will be worth investigatingmistaken identity moment involving the neighbours. At least Janice is well adjusted and over her ex-husband Alec. Here we meet for She still dreams of him, yes, but it's so over! Just as well really… guess who's at the first time Blotto (posh idiotic son 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 dowager duchess) and Twinks 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. (posh brilliant genius sister I know they should be called that – the author provides a handy guide to Blottothe etiquette of their name, their nature and location, etc.)For our more distant readers, their familythey'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, their surroundingsand big on growing flowers in the tropical climate the Gulf Stream bequeaths them – although the weather is bad enough to turn any car to a rust bucket within years. They're so wee, and so idyllic-seeming, especially at night, you can be mistaken for thinking there would be no need for a police presence. But there is – at least two working at any one time. And one of them in recent years has been Colin Taylor, who has done his official duty – alongside maintaining a well-known online existence, which has brought to life all the corpse inconveniently disturbing whimsical comedy of his work. [[The Life of a dinner partyScilly 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;"|amazonuk===[['Twas the Fight Before Christmas: A Parody by Josie Lloyd and Emlyn Rees]]=== [[image:3.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Humour|Humour]] It's Christmas Eve and Mum has arranged everything. All she now has to do is await the arrival of the relatives and the food shopping delivery. Little does Mum know that those two elements alone have the potential to ruin everything. [['Twas the Fight Before Christmas: A Parody by Josie Lloyd and Emlyn Rees|Full Review]] <amazonuk!-- Phinn -->1845299353|-| 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 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]] <!-- 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, 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/amazonukor Juliet by Ryan North|Full Review]] <!-- DO NOT REMOVE ANYTHING BELOW THIS LINE -->}|}