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{{newreview|authorstyle=Stella Gibbons"vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"||title=Cold Comfort Farm|rating=5|genre=Humour|summary[[The Con Artist by Fred Van Lente]]==Orphaned at 19, Flora Poste – a London sophisticate – is led to retreat to deepest Sussex to live off her relatives the Starkadders at the aptly named Cold Comfort Farm, a mournful bunch who take her in as they couldn't refuse anything of 'Robert Poste's child', but seem less than happy with having to do so. As she meets the preacher Amos, his over-sexed younger son Seth, his flighty sister Elphine, and the hugely memorable – if barely seen – Aunt Ada Doom, the first person in literature to see 'something nasty in the woodshed' – she resolves to take the family in hand and solve their problems.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141441593</amazonuk>}}

{{newreview[[image:4star.jpg|authorlink=Philip Jose Farmer|title=The Further Adventures of Sherlock HolmesCategory: The Peerless Peer|{{{rating=4.5}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime|genre=Crime (Historical)|summary=It's World War One]], and Britain has got wind of some brilliant scientific research, that has created a new bacterial weapon capable of wiping out the world's supply of sauerkraut. But a dastardly German has stolen the formula. Before he can give a variant based on boiled meat, cabbage and potatoes to the kaiser, his most recent nemesis - Sherlock Holmes, no less - must be brought out of beekeeping retirement. Cue an adventure and a half, as he and Watson take to the skies for the first time in their hectic lives, end up in darkest Africa, and encounter a certain yodelling, long-haired nobleman, more than up to the name of King of the Jungle...[[:Category:Humour|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857681206</amazonuk>}}Humour]]

{{newreview|author=Tom Sharpe|title=The Wilt Inheritance|rating=3.5|genre=Humour|summary=Wilt is stuck in Comic-Cons are a job he doesn't want – teaching a subject place of wonder and sanctuary for many people, and when Comic book artist Mike Mason arrives at San Diego Comic-Con, he's not keen on to people looking for whom he has no affection – at one both that and sanctuary with other fans and creators, plus the chance of the new Universitiesmaybe, just maybe reuniting with his ex. We used However, when his rival is found dead, Mike is forced to know them as technical colleges. But he can't afford to lose it because navigate every dark corner of the expense of keeping the quads at an expensive school con in order to clear his name – from cosplay flash mobs and of maintaining intrusive fans to zombie obstacle courses – Mike must prove his snobbish wifeinnocence and, Eva. It's Eva though who signs him up for a job in the summer holidays – tutoring the step-son of doing so, may just unravel 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 and shoots at anything which moves – or even doesn't move – and that he's an idiot who would probably struggle to get dark secret behind a bus to Cambridgelegendary industry creator.[[The Con Artist by Fred Van Lente|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099493136</amazonuk>}}Full Review]]

{{newreview<!-- Coulton -->|author=Tom Holt-|titlestyle=Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Sausages"width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|rating=5[[image:1473669588.jpg|genrelink=Fantasy|summary=Imagine a world where pigs can do quantum mechanics, and where female solicitors turn into chickenshttp://www. 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)amazon. Stir in a bit of property developing, a thaumaturgical detective and an old man who lives in a cloudco. Resultuk/dp/1473669588/ref=nosim? You haven't even begun to probe the depths of this crazy, absurd, complex and hilarious book.|amazonuktag=<amazonuk>1841495077</amazonuk>}}thebookbag-21]]

{{newreview|authorstyle=Charles Lamb"vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"||title=Great Food: A Dissertation Upon Roast Pig and Other Essays|rating=4|genre=Cookery|summary[[Falling Short by Lex Coulton]]==''A Dissertation Upon Roast Pig'' is a collection of food-related essays from the early 19th century, 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.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241951003</amazonuk>}}

{{newreview|author=ClientsFromHell[[image:4star.netjpg|titlelink=Clients From Hell|Category:{{{rating=4}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|genre=General Fiction]], [[:Category:Humour|summary=Everyone who's worked as a freelancer has a story of a client from hell - that person who asked for something that was impossibleHumour]], wanted it done yesterday for a fraction of the usual price, or is just plain angry about the work produced. The website [http[://www.clientsfromhell.net ClientsFromHell.netCategory:Women's Fiction|Women's Fiction]] has collated a number of such stories over the years, and has now published them as a book.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0982473931</amazonuk>}}

{{newreview|author=Manu Joseph|title=Serious Men|rating=4|genre=General Fiction|summary=Ayyan Mani Lex Coulton's debut novel is a Dalitstory about mistakes, an untouchablefailures, stuck in and relationships. The main protagonist, Frances Pilgrim, is a flat in Mumbai's slums but hopingsixth form English teacher who has recently fallen out with her best friend Jackson, somehowa work colleague, for a better future for his son. Working at and is grappling with the Insitute of Theory and Research he uses all his cunning and wiles to stay ahead increasingly eccentric behaviour of the game amongst the Brahmin scientistsher mother. Does he have This relationship is complicated by the intelligence, and nerves, to convince everyone fact that his son, against all odds, is a genius?Frances's father disappeared at sea when she was five years old. [[Falling Short by Lex Coulton|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848543085</amazonuk>}}Full Review]]

{{newreview<!-- van LENTE -->|author=John Saunders-|titlestyle=The Vernham Chronicles"width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|rating=4[[image:1683690346.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/1683690346/ref=nosim?tag=<amazonuk>1907499598</amazonuk>}}thebookbag-21]]

{{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 [[The Con Artist 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.|amazonukFred Van Lente]]===<amazonuk>0141036435</amazonuk>}}

[[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:History{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]]{{newreview[[:Category:Crime|author=Simon Garfield|title=Just My TypeCrime]], [[:Category: A Book About Fonts|rating=4.5Humour|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'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|author=Bob Servant Comic-Cons are a place of wonder and sanctuary for many people, and Neil Forsyth|title=Bob Servant: Hero of Dundee|rating=3.5|genre=Humour|summary=After [[Delete This when Comic book artist Mike Mason arrives at Your Peril: One ManSan Diego Comic-Con, he's Fearless Exchanges looking for both that and sanctuary with other fans and creators, plus the Internet Spammers by Bob Servant|bursting into public consciousness]] as the scourge chance of email spammersmaybe, Broughty Ferry's resident polymath Bob Servant has returnedjust maybe reuniting with his ex. This timeHowever, he expands upon when his rival is found dead, Mike is forced to navigate every dark corner of the colourful life only hinted at con in order to clear his previous oeuvre, Delete this at Your Peril. And what a life it has been. He steers us name – from cosplay flash mobs and intrusive fans to zombie obstacle courses – Mike must prove his humble beginnings, his broken family innocence and traumatic schooldays, through the rise and fall of his window cleaning empire, and his role in Dundee's brutal cheeseburger wars. Along the waydoing so, we witness his struggles with, respectively, women ('skirt'), his simpleton sidekick Frank, and the demon drinkmay just unravel a dark secret behind a legendary industry creator.[[The Con Artist by Fred Van Lente|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841589209</amazonuk>}}Full Review]]

{{newreview<!-- Curran -->|author=P K Munroe-|titlestyle=You Can Stick It"width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1683690133.jpg|ratinglink=3http://www.5|genreamazon.co.uk/dp/1683690133/ref=Humour|summarynosim?tag=Literary merit? Absolutely none!thebookbag-21]]

Ah, so it| style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[My Lady's non-fiction? Well, calling it ''fact'' would be stretching things a little too far...Choosing by Kitty Curran and Larissa Zageris]]===

So, come on then[[image:4star. What ''is'' it?jpg|amazonuklink=<amazonuk>0007362188</amazonuk>Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Humour|Humour]], [[:Category:Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]]

{{newreview|author=Axel Scheffler|title=How to Keep You are a Pet Squirrel|rating=4|genre=Humour|summary=So, how do you keep a pet squirrel? Welllass of twenty eight. Plucky, penniless and in Regency era London the simple answer race is that on to find a suitable suitor - or else doom yourself to life as an eternal spinster. Along your journey you don't. They're wild animals ll be accompanied by Lady Evangeline Youngblood - a fiesty noble eager to save you from a life alone, and not at all suitable fired by a rogueish sense for keeping in captivityadventure. When it comes to suitors though, but accepted thinking didnyou'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 ll have to obtaining make the ultimate decision between witty, pretty and wealthy Sir Benedict Granville, wholesome, rugged and caring for your pet squirrelCaptain Angus MacTaggart, or the mad, bad and terrifyingly sexy Lord Garraway Craven. His inventive mind came up with these beautiful illustrations to accompany With orphans, werewolves, long lost lovers and ancient Egyptian artifcats along the text and if youway, it're looking for an amusing gift for an animal-loving adult then s clear this book could well isn't going to be the answeran easy decision...[[My Lady's Choosing by Kitty Curran and Larissa Zageris|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571255981</amazonuk>}}Full Review]]

{{newreview<!-- Jester -->|author=PJ Vanston-|titlestyle=Crump"width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|rating=3[[image:Jester_Forever.jpg|genre=General Fictionleft|summarylink=It's Kevin Crump's first day as a lecturer at Thames Metropolitan University - an ex-polytechnichttps://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/gp/product/1510704361?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=<amazonuk>1848762852</amazonuk>}}1510704361]]

{{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 [[Forever After: 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.|amazonukdark comedy by David Jester]]===<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:Paranormal|genre=CrimeParanormal]], [[:Category:Horror|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 factHorror]], 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:Fantasy|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0230714684</amazonuk>}}Fasntasy]]

{{newreview|author=A J Jacobs|title=My Experimental Life|rating=3.5|genre=Humour|summary=A J Jacobs has Michael Holland is a reputation for setting himself onerous tasks. His first book was about reading cocky and brash young man who dies and gets made the entire Encyclopedia Britannicaoffer of his lifetime; immortality. We follow Michael, a grim reaper and his second detailed friends Chip (a year spent according stoner tooth fairy) and Naff (a stoner in the records department) as they grapple with their long lives and finding a clean surface to the Biblical preceptssit on in their flat. In My Experimental Life, he recounts nine briefer episodes of living outside his comfort zone.[[Forever After: a dark comedy by David Jester|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099547422</amazonuk>}}Full Review]]

{{newreview<!-- Stibbe -->|author=Seth Grahame-Smith|titlestyle=Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter"width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"||rating=3[[image:Stibbe_Xmas.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/0241309824?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=<amazonuk>1849014086</amazonuk>}}0241309824]]

{{newreview|authorstyle=Carl McInerney"vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"||title=The Funniest Football Joke Book Ever|rating=3.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary[[An Almost Perfect Christmas by Nina Stibbe]]==Who scored the most goals in the Greek Mythology League? The centaur forward. Badoom boom tshhhh. It's a football joke book, packed to the gills with all sorts of cheesiness and silliness. Funniest ever? Perhaps not, but it's not too bad.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849391114</amazonuk>}}

[[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{newreview|author=Paul Magrs|title=Hell's Belles|rating=3.5}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Humour|genre=Humour|summary=The idea behind this series of novels is quite enchanting and amusing. Frankenstein's daughter is living and sleuthing in Whitby]], ably aided and abetted by her sidekick, the enigmatic Effie, and a growing menagerie of younger accomplices, namely Michael and Penny. Whilst the original idea showed huge promise, I felt that the author has rather overdone it in terms of output, in his desire to capitalise on his original success. Book two in the series was quite disappointing, relying on sensationalism rather than adequate plot and character development. Book three was an improvement-and I'm delighted to report that this, the fourth book in the series, shows him returning to form with the promise we saw in the first of the series.[[:Category:Short Stories|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0755346467</amazonuk>}}Short Stories]]

{{newreview|author=Valerie Thomas and Korky Paul|title=Winnie's Jokes|rating=2Christmas – the time of traditional trauma.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Who turns off You only have to think about the lights at Halloween? The lights witch. What does an Australian witch ride turkey for that – once upon a time it was leaving it sat on? A broomerangthe downstairs loo to defrost overnight, and if that failed the hair-dryer shoved inside it treatment was your next best bet. YepNowadays it's all having to make sure it's suitably free-range and organic – but not too organic that you can go and visit it, and get too friendly with itto want to eat it. Christmas, though, is of course also a time of great boons. It's cash in hand for a joke book.lot of plump 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 parents made you write out in long-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 year? [[An Almost Perfect Christmas by Nina Stibbe|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0192729063</amazonuk>}}Full Review]]

{{newreview<!-- Doescher -->|author=Nick Wadley-|titlestyle=Man + Dog"width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"||rating=4[[image:Doescher_Will.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/159474985X?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=<amazonuk>1564785521</amazonuk>}}159474985X]]

{{newreview|authorstyle=Steven Lowe and Alan McArthur |title=Is it Just Me or Has the Shit Hit the Fan?"vertical-align: top; text-align: Your Hilarious New Guide to Unremitting Global Misery|rating=3|genre=Humourleft;"|summary=''The banks fell over like fat Labradors running over a wet kitchen floor.'' Surely that is the wackiest, most inappropriate simile for the credit crunch and all it has done for the world. You won't get any such namby-pamby animal likenesses from these authors, instead with quite a potty mouth on them they will lambast the modern world, the entire banking system, all those who failed to see it coming, and those millions just seemingly waiting for us all to revert to high-interest, high-risk, high-lending capitalism, so they can get back on the expenses train, and back up the rich lists.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847443656</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Eoin Colfer|title=And Another Thing ... Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker[[William Shakespeare's Guide to the GalaxyForce Doth Awaken: Star Wars Part Six of Three (Hitchhikers Guide 6) |rating=3.5|genrethe Seventh by Ian Doescher]]=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:Science Fiction|genre=Science Fiction]], [[:Category:Humour|summary=I shall start with a prediction. I will not become a vampire, for this imminent Hallowe'en, any festive fancy dress parties, or indeed for life as the lifeless undead. I will not need tips on filing my fangs, or how to divert attention from the fact I cannot eat human food at dinner parties. Me and my reflection in mirrors will remain intact. But for those of you reading this at night, somewhere, flameproof cape at hand, with your distaste of garlic, publicity and presumably the anaemic, this is the sterling how-to lifestyle guide.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0224086464</amazonuk>}}Humour]]

{{newreview|author=David OA long time ago, in a galaxy far away, there was a man called William Shakespeare, who was able to create a series of dramatic histories full of machinations most foul, rulers most evil and rebellious heroes and heroines most sturdy. You may or may not have noticed the cinematic version of his original stage play for ''The Force Doth Awaken''Doherty, Claudia O'Doherty but here at last we get the actual script, complete with annoying-in-different-ways-to-before droids anew, returning heroes from elsewhere in his oeuvre, and Mike Ahern|title=100 Facts About Pandas|rating=3.5|genre=Humour|summary=Sometimes people keeping it in the title says family til it all - this is a book with 100 facts about pandashurts. Sometimes And if you need to note further encouragement, don't forget his audience only demanded three parts of Henry VI – here the author too - David Oseries is so popular we'Doherty won an Edinburgh Comedy Award, so re on to part seven – surely making this is a book of a 100 silly and untrue facts about pandas.over twice as good… [[William Shakespeare's the Force Doth Awaken: Star Wars Part the Seventh by Ian Doescher|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0224086324</amazonuk>}}Full Review]]

{{newreview<!-- Goss -->|author=Richard Horne -|titlestyle=A is for Armageddon"width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"||rating=2[[image:Goss_600.5jpg|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/1785942719?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>}}1785942719]]

{{newreview|authorstyle=Jane Austen and Seth Grahame"vertical-align: top; text-Smith align: left;"|title=Pride and Prejudice and Zombies|rating=4.5|genre=Humour|summary=Ah, the benefits to a good book [[Doctor Who: Now We Are Six Hundred: A Collection of a classic first line. 'Call me Ishmael.' 'It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.' Time Lord Verse (Dr 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.'|amazonukJames Goss and Russell T Davies]]===<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}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Children's been a while since Tim Rhymes and FlyVerse|Children's Rhymes and Verse]], [[Tim the Tiny Horse by Harry Hill:Category:Science Fiction|last adventuresScience Fiction]], and changes are afoot in Tim's tiny world[[:Category: 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.Humour|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571244157</amazonuk>}}Humour]]

{{newreview|author=Spike Milligan|title=The Magical World of Milligan|rating=4Consider the Doctor.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Some people you just Just how many birthday and Christmas gifts must he have to love. It's the law. Spike Milligan was always fantastichand out each year, and were he's much missed. to keep in touch with even half of his companions? He's got the perfect mix would certainly need a few novelty gifts for some of nonsensethem, say, heartfor example, whimsical books of verse that pithily encapsulate the life of a Time Lord and that of some of his friends and surreal humourenemies. He speaks As luck would have it, he has the space in his TARDIS to stock up in advance, so my advice to people of all ageshim – sorry, her – would be to pop along to his local Earth-based book emporium and heget himself ready. And if you's re working on a shorter timescale, with a shorter lifespan, and thinking perhaps just plain lovelyone gift season ahead, well my advice is pretty much the same. [[Doctor Who: Now We Are Six Hundred: A Collection of Time Lord Verse (Dr Who) by James Goss and Russell T Davies|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1905264844</amazonuk>}}Full Review]]

{{newreview<!-- Ingram -->|author=Sam Savage-|titlestyle=The Cry of the Sloth"width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"||rating=3[[image:Ingram_Kammie.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/1785451995?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>}}1785451995]]

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;"|}}===[[Conversations with Kammie by Annie Ingram]]===

[[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{newreview|author=Hugh Murr and Sid Nigtures |title=Cyber Sign Offs|rating=2}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Pets|genre=Pets]], [[:Category: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've all seen them, those straplines people have on all their forum posts. The obvious response would have been along the lines of 'fair enough, but why is this a book in this day and age, and not a website?'. But no. This is a collection of dialogues between two people - shall we call them Sue deNim and Allie Bye, who have a line or two to say to each other, and a made-up name (sorry, make that May Dupp-Name) with which to sign it off. Much jolly nonsense ensues.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1904312497</amazonuk>}}Humour]]

{{newreview|author=Tim Fitzhigham |title=All at Sea: One ManIt was something of a relief when I encountered Annie Ingram and her cocker spaniel Kammie. One Bathtub. One Very Bad IdeaYou see, Annie knows something which has been self-evident to me for a long time: Conquering the Channel in a Piece dogs are perfectly capable of Plumbing|rating=4.5|genre=Travel|summary=Once more my life is made easy by saying this book does communicating with humans and not just what it claims on the cover - takes a narrator level of zestyfood!, wacky humourwalk! or play!. You do require extensive training to become fluent, throws him into an unlikely situation (a bath) but most dogs will be perfectly willing to give their time to teach you and gets him all you have to do something unusual (row it across the Channel - is listen. Annie has studied hard: Kammie has trained her well and then beyond). This despite the fact he was the world's worst sculler at Universitypair have allowed us to share some of their conversations.[[Conversations with Kammie by Annie Ingram|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848090269</amazonuk>}}Full Review]]

{{newreview<!-- Harris -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Harris_Glass.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1908943823/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  |authorstyle="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The Breaking of Liam Glass by Charles Harris]]===Simon Brett [[image:3star.jpg|titlelink=BlottoCategory:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime|Crime]], [[:Category:Humour|Humour]] Teenager Liam Glass is mugged and stabbed yards from his Camden flat. As the boy lies comatose, desperate journalist Jason Worthington scrabbles for the inside scoop, tired police officer Andy Rockham searches for a missing tape, harried politician Jamila Hasan fights for re-election, distraught mother Katrina Glass waits by her son, Twinks and gym-owner Royland simply finds himself in the wrong place at the Exwrong 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 --King's Daughter>|-| 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="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===Humour[[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 split and the awkwardness of the girls' schoolteacher being the conclusion 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, they're several chunks of granite rock out in the Atlantic, where Cornwall is pointing, with just 2, their family200 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;"|===[['Twas the Fight Before Christmas: A Parody by Josie Lloyd and Emlyn Rees]]=== [[image:3.5star.jpg|amazonuklink=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/amazonukor 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]] <!-- DO NOT REMOVE ANYTHING BELOW THIS LINE -->}|}