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[[Category:New Reviews|Humour]]==Humour==__NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreview|authorclass-"wikitable" cellpadding=William Giraldi"15" <!-- INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE--><!-- van LENTE -->|title=Busy Monsters-|ratingstyle=4"width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|genre=General Fiction[[image:1683690346.jpg|summarylink=Charles Homar loves his Gillianhttp://www. He's proved it to us, if not to her, by going after her possessive, jealous state trooper of an ex with the intent to kill - if only ended up rescuing a cat insteadamazon. But lo and behold, she's declared she's off to discover the real love of her life - the giant squidco. Failing to stop this, Charlie spends too long with a Nessie obsessive, then goes on a hunt of his own uk/dp/1683690346/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag- for Bigfoot, all the while, chapter by chapter, sending his narrative of the same to a magazine as essays for one of those autobiographical, frivolous columns.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0393079627</amazonuk>}}21]]
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|author=William Giraldi
|title=Busy Monsters
|rating=4
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=
Charles Homar loves his Gillian. He's proved it to us, if not to her, by going after her possessive, jealous state trooper of an ex with the intent to kill - if only ended up rescuing a cat instead. But lo and behold, she's declared she's off to discover the real love of her life - the giant squid. Failing to stop this, Charlie spends too long with a Nessie obsessive, then goes on a hunt of his own - for Bigfoot, all the while, chapter by chapter, sending his narrative of the same to a magazine as essays for one of those autobiographical, frivolous columns.
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{{newreview|authorstyle=Kevin Wilson"vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|title=The Family Fang|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=Annie Fang and her brother Buster are back living at home with their parents - where they never thought they'd ever be again. But it has come to this - her film actress career is on the rocks with the kind of self-destruction so much enjoyed [[The Con Artist by tabloid writers, and he - well, he's here because of a jumbo spud gun. Neither want life back at home, as throughout their childhood they were used by their parents - without much planning, without any consideration of feelings, or consent - in a whole career of performance art pieces, designed to enact a point of life or just cause havoc.|amazonukFred Van Lente]]===<amazonuk>1447202384</amazonuk>}}
[[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{newreview|author=Zadie Smith|title=White Teeth|rating=5|genre=Literary Fiction}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime|summary=Some books sneak up on you. Others are thrown at you from every corner of the media to the extent that you almost make a conscious decision NOT to read themCrime]], or at least, not yet. Let the furore die down. If they're still around in a few years, your subconscious whispers, maybe we'll go see what all the fuss was about. [[:Category:Humour|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241954576</amazonuk>}}Humour]]
{{newreview|author=David Lodge|title=The Campus Trilogy|rating=4.5|genre=Humour|summary=Somewhere along the line the word "vintage" stopped meaning simply the wine crop Comic-Cons are a place of any given yearwonder and sanctuary for many people, and started to mean 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 wine chance of a particularly good yearmaybe, just maybe reuniting with his ex. However, when his rival is found dead, Mike is forced to navigate every dark corner of the con in order to clear his name – from cosplay flash mobs and then intrusive fans to mean anything of zombie obstacle courses – Mike must prove his innocence and, in doing so, may just unravel a dark secret behind a past year that was (is) of outstanding qualitylegendary industry creator. Such is the mutability of language. [[The Con Artist by Fred Van Lente|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099529130</amazonuk>}}Full Review]]
{{newreview
|author=Ludwig Bechstein, Axel Sceffler and Julia Donaldson
|title=The Gloomster
|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=We've all been there. Finding fault with everything around us, and perhaps picking on one particular irritant that gets us so rattled, tetchy and narked all we can do is invoke "Hell and damnation!" down on all creation - including, of course, ourselves. After all, our lot is so bad it won't make anything much worse.
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{{newreview<!-- Coulton -->|author=Stella Gibbons-|titlestyle=Conference at Cold Comfort Farm"width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1473669588.jpg|ratinglink=4http://www.amazon.co.5|genreuk/dp/1473669588/ref=Humour|summarynosim?tag=There are no Starkadders at Cold Comfort Farm.thebookbag-21]]
To those of you who've not read Stella Gibbons' magnificient [[Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons|original novel]], this is hardly likely to be a major shock - to the Gibbons fans amongst us, though, this is chilling news indeed. And when Robert
Poste's child Flora returns to the farm - now a modernised monstrosity full of members of the International Thinkers' Group – sixteen years after her original visit, the news get graver and graver, as the cows Feckless, Graceless, Pointless, and Aimless have passed away of shame due to the disgrace of the bull Big Business. With the menfolk trying to make their fortunes abroad, and the women struggling, it's left to Flora to try to save the day once again.
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{{newreview|authorstyle=Stella Gibbons"vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"||title=Cold Comfort Farm|rating=5|genre=Humour|summary[[Falling Short by Lex Coulton]]==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|author=Philip Jose Farmer[[image:4star.jpg|titlelink=The Further Adventures of Sherlock HolmesCategory: The Peerless Peer|{{{rating=4.5}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|genre=Crime (Historical)General Fiction]], [[:Category:Humour|summary=ItHumour]], [[:Category:Women'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 worldFiction|Women'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...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857681206</amazonuk>}}Fiction]]
{{newreview|author=Tom Sharpe|title=Lex Coulton's debut novel is a story about mistakes, failures, and relationships. The Wilt Inheritance|rating=3.5|genre=Humour|summary=Wilt main protagonist, Frances Pilgrim, is stuck in a job he doesn't want – teaching a subject he's not keen on to people for whom he sixth form English teacher who has no affection – at one of the new Universities. We used to know them as technical colleges. 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 wiferecently fallen out with her best friend Jackson, Eva. It's Eva though who signs him up for a job in the summer holidays – tutoring the step-son of a local aristocrat in work colleague, and is grappling with the hope increasingly eccentric behaviour of getting him into Cambridge – and particularly Porterhouse Collegeher mother. It's not long before Wilt discovers that This relationship is complicated by the boy totes a gun and shoots at anything which moves – or even doesn't move – and fact that heFrances's an idiot who would probably struggle to get a bus to Cambridgefather disappeared at sea when she was five years old.[[Falling Short by Lex Coulton|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099493136</amazonuk>}}Full Review]]
{{newreview<!-- van LENTE -->|author=Alain Mabanckou-|titlestyle=Memoirs of a Porcupine"width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|rating=4[[image:1683690346.jpg|genrelink=Literary Fiction|summary=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<!-- Curran -->|author=Manu Joseph-|titlestyle=Serious Men"width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|rating=4[[image:1683690133.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/1683690133/ref=nosim?|amazonuktag=<amazonuk>1848543085</amazonuk>}}thebookbag-21]]
{{newreview
|author=John Saunders
|title=The Vernham Chronicles
|rating=4
|genre=Humour
|summary=Set amidst the rolling British countryside around Vernbury Vale is the little village of Vernham. Anyone who lives in a village will recognise it immediately, with its cobbled streets and Tudor buildings. 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 buildings. 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.
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{{newreview|authorstyle=Martin Millar"vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|title=The Good Fairies of New York|rating=4|genre=Fantasy|summary=In this fairytale of New York, the Cornish fairy King[[My Lady's children are living in exile, hiding in Central Park from a nasty industrial revolution back home. They have friends from Ireland with them, Choosing by Kitty Curran 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.|amazonukLarissa Zageris]]===<amazonuk>0749954205</amazonuk>}}
[[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{newreview|author=Gervase Phinn|title=Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Stars|rating=4}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Humour|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 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.[[:Category:Historical Fiction|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141036435</amazonuk>}}Historical Fiction]]
[[Category:History]]{{newreview|author=Simon Garfield|title=Just My Type: A Book About Fonts|rating=4You are a lass of twenty eight.5|genre=Humour|summary=A quality typeface Plucky, penniless and in Regency era London the race is on to find a bit like suitable suitor - or else doom yourself to life as an eternal spinster. Along your journey you'll be accompanied by Lady Evangeline Youngblood - a good referee at fiesty noble eager to save you from a life alone, and fired by a football match in that you only really notice them if something has gone wrongrogueish sense for adventure. A referee is there When it comes to facilitate the players on the pitchsuitors though, not to be the star of the show (though watching Match of the Day these past few weeks you'd often beg ll have to differ). So it is with typefaces. A good type helps make the readerultimate decision between witty, enhances pretty and wealthy Sir Benedict Granville, wholesome, rugged and caring Captain Angus MacTaggart, or the flow mad, bad and makes terrifyingly sexy Lord Garraway Craven. With orphans, werewolves, long lost lovers and ancient Egyptian artifcats along the viewing experience way, it's clear this isn't going to be an easy and simpledecision.. Well sort of.[[My Lady's Choosing by Kitty Curran and Larissa Zageris|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846683017</amazonuk>}}Full Review]]
{{newreview<!-- Jester -->|author=Bob Servant and Neil Forsyth-|titlestyle=Bob Servant"width: 10%; vertical-align: Hero of Dundeetop; text-align: center;"||rating=3[[image:Jester_Forever.5jpg|genre=Humourleft|summarylink=After [[Delete This at Your Perilhttps: One Man's Fearless Exchanges with the Internet Spammers by Bob Servant|bursting into public consciousness]] as the scourge of email spammers, Broughty Ferry's resident polymath Bob Servant has returned//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/gp/product/1510704361?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=<amazonuk>1841589209</amazonuk>}}1510704361]]
{{newreview
|author=P K Munroe
|title=You Can Stick It
|rating=3.5
|genre=Humour
|summary=Literary merit? Absolutely none!
Plot, characterisation and all that other stuff you usually talk about? Nope – there's none of that, either.| style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Forever After: a dark comedy by David Jester]]===
Ah[[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Paranormal|Paranormal]], so it's non-fiction? Well[[:Category:Horror|Horror]], calling it ''fact'' would be stretching things a little too far...[[:Category:Fantasy|Fasntasy]]
SoMichael Holland is a cocky and brash young man who dies and gets made the offer of his lifetime; immortality. We follow Michael, come a grim reaper and his friends Chip (a stoner tooth fairy) and Naff (a stoner in the records department) as they grapple with their long lives and finding a clean surface to sit on thenin their flat. What ''is'' it?[[Forever After: a dark comedy by David Jester|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007362188</amazonuk>}}Full Review]]
{{newreview<!-- Stibbe -->|author=Axel Scheffler-|titlestyle=How to Keep a Pet Squirrel"width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|rating=4[[image:Stibbe_Xmas.jpg|genre=Humourleft|summarylink=So, how do you keep a pet squirrel? Well, the simple answer is that you don'thttps://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/gp/product/0241309824?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-loving adult then this book could well be the answer.|amazonuk21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=<amazonuk>0571255981</amazonuk>}}0241309824]]
{{newreview
|author=PJ Vanston
|title=Crump
|rating=3
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=It's Kevin Crump's first day as a lecturer at Thames Metropolitan University - an ex-polytechnic. It's the happiest day of his life, and he can't wait to see all that it holds, and make a difference to all his students. And then it hits him: the relentless pettiness of authority figures, the students who can't string two sentences together, the lowering of standards in search of higher test scores, so more money from foreign students, and political correctness gone (as I believe the saying goes) mad.
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{{newreview|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 [[An Almost Perfect Christmas 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.|amazonukNina Stibbe]]===<amazonuk>0099530422</amazonuk>}}
[[image:4.5star.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:Short Stories|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1402778279</amazonuk>}}Short Stories]]
{{newreview|author=L C Tyler|title=The Herring In The Library|rating=4Christmas – the time of traditional trauma.5|genre=Crime|summary=Tall, elegant Ethelred is You only have to think about the turkey for that – once upon a gentlemantime it was leaving it sat on the downstairs loo to defrost overnight, and a thirdif that failed the hair-rate authordryer shoved inside it treatment was your next best bet. Elsie, his literary agent, is short Nowadays it's all having to make sure it's suitably free-range and organic – but not too organic that you can go and dumpyvisit it, and not afraid get too friendly with it to want to speak her mindeat it. It is ElsieChristmas, in factthough, who constantly assures her client he only occasionally aspires to the giddy heights is of course also a time of being second-rategreat boons. 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 TylerIt's eccentric sleuthscash in hand for a lot of plump people who can hire red suits and beards, we are provided 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 locked room mysterychild, a cast and as for the makers of possible villains Meltis Newberry Fruits – well, did they even try and sell them any other time of the most stereotypical type, and a fresh, funny tale which will make you laugh so much you'll get a stitch.year? [[An Almost Perfect Christmas by Nina Stibbe|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0230714684</amazonuk>}}Full Review]]
{{newreview<!-- Doescher -->|author=A J Jacobs-|titlestyle=My Experimental Life"width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"||rating=3[[image:Doescher_Will.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/159474985X?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=<amazonuk>0099547422</amazonuk>}}159474985X]]
{{newreview
|author=Seth Grahame-Smith
|title=Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter
|rating=3.5
|genre=Humour
|summary='Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.' That quote, on the Statue of Liberty, was probably not designed with the inclusion of vampires in mind. But by some means or another North America is rife with the things – hiding in plain sight, as the older ones can bear sunlight, with the help of darkened glasses. It might just come down to one eager young man to rid his new country of such things, on his way to something he’s a bit more known for.
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{{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 a truth universally acknowledged that a zombie story of any renown will not remain simply a zombie story. Before you can say '[[William Shakespeare's the risen undead'' it will become a series of books, inspiring others, and/or lead to Force Doth Awaken: Star Wars Part 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.|amazonukSeventh by Ian Doescher]]===<amazonuk>1848566948</amazonuk>}}
[[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{newreview|author=Carl McInerney|title=The Funniest Football Joke Book Ever|rating=3.5|genre=Confident Readers}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Science Fiction|summary=Who scored the most goals in the Greek Mythology League? The centaur forward. Badoom boom tshhhh. It's a football joke bookScience Fiction]], packed to the gills with all sorts of cheesiness and silliness. Funniest ever? Perhaps not, but it's not too bad.[[:Category:Humour|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849391114</amazonuk>}}Humour]]
{{newreview|author=Paul Magrs|title=Hell's Belles|rating=3.5|genre=Humour|summary=The idea behind this series of novels is quite enchanting and amusing. Frankenstein's daughter is living and sleuthing A long time ago, in Whitbya galaxy far away, ably aided and abetted by her sidekickthere was a man called William Shakespeare, the enigmatic Effie, and who was able to create a growing menagerie series of younger accomplicesdramatic histories full of machinations most foul, namely Michael rulers most evil and rebellious heroes and Pennyheroines most sturdy. Whilst You may or may not have noticed the cinematic version of his original idea showed huge promisestage play for ''The Force Doth Awaken'', I felt that but here at last we get the author has rather overdone it actual script, complete with annoying-in terms of output-different-ways-to-before droids anew, returning heroes from elsewhere in his desire to capitalise on his original success. Book two oeuvre, and people keeping it in the series was quite disappointingfamily til it hurts. And if you need further encouragement, relying on sensationalism rather than adequate plot and character development. Book don't forget his audience only demanded three was an improvement-and Iparts of Henry VI – here the series is so popular we'm delighted re on to report that part seven – surely making this, over twice as good… [[William Shakespeare's the fourth book in Force Doth Awaken: Star Wars Part the series, shows him returning to form with the promise we saw in the first of the series.Seventh by Ian Doescher|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0755346467</amazonuk>}}Full Review]]
{{newreview<!-- Goss -->|author=Valerie Thomas and Korky Paul-|titlestyle=Winnie's Jokes"width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"||rating=2[[image:Goss_600.5jpg|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/1785942719?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=<amazonuk>0192729063</amazonuk>}}1785942719]]
{{newreview
|author=Nick Wadley
|title=Man + Dog
|rating=4.5
|genre=Humour
|summary=Throughout my life I've lived with dogs or deeply regretted the fact that I lacked a canine companion. Watching a dog – or better still, the interaction between dogs – is infinitely better than anything on television and it's sheer joy to see how man and dog interacts and how, so often, they hold a mirror up to each other.
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{{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 by Stephenie Meyer|Twilight]]. The books by Stephenie Meyer and the film have made a legend Doctor Who: Now We Are Six Hundred: A Collection of the romance between vampire Edward Mullen Time Lord Verse (Robert Pattinson plays the movie roleDr Who) by James Goss and teenage schoolgirl Bella Swan (Kristen Stewart).|amazonukRussell T Davies]]===<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 ColferStar Reviews]] [[:Category:Children's Rhymes and Verse|title=And Another Thing ... Douglas Adams' HitchhikerChildren's Guide to the GalaxyRhymes and Verse]], [[: Part Six of Three (Hitchhikers Guide 6) |rating=3.5Category:Science Fiction|genre=Science Fiction|summary=Of all the big books announced for this year]], this one must have raised more eyebrows than many. Why try and write a new Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy book, when way before the end, its creator Douglas Adams was proving quite hopeless at such a task? And why approach an Irishman, Eoin Colfer, when the originals - tempered with their humour which could only be described as Monty Python doing a sci-fi Terry Pratchett, and with their cups of tea and dressing gowns, could only be described as very English? Well the answer is most evident - Colfer is a world-beater when it comes to knocking up a story.[[:Category:Humour|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0718155149</amazonuk>}}Humour]]
{{newreview|author=The Vampire Miles Proctor|title=The New Vampire's Handbook|rating=3Consider the Doctor.5|genre=Humour|summary=I shall start 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 prediction. I will not become a vampire, few novelty gifts for this imminent Hallowe'ensome of them, any festive fancy dress partiessay, or indeed for example, whimsical books of verse that pithily encapsulate the life as of a Time Lord and that of some of his friends and enemies. As luck would have it, he has the lifeless undead. I will not need tips on filing space in his TARDIS to stock up in advance, so my fangsadvice to him – sorry, or how her – would be to pop along to divert attention from the fact I cannot eat human food at dinner parties. Me his local Earth-based book emporium and my reflection in mirrors will remain intactget himself ready. But for those of And if you reading this at night, somewhere, flameproof cape at hand're working on a shorter timescale, with your distaste of garlica shorter lifespan, publicity and presumably the anaemicthinking perhaps just one gift season ahead, this well my advice is pretty much the sterling how-to lifestyle guidesame.[[Doctor Who: Now We Are Six Hundred: A Collection of Time Lord Verse (Dr Who) by James Goss and Russell T Davies|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0224086464</amazonuk>}}Full Review]]
{{newreview<!-- Ingram -->|author=David O'Doherty, Claudia O'Doherty and Mike Ahern-|titlestyle=100 Facts About Pandas"width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Ingram_Kammie.jpg|ratingleft|link=3https://www.5|genreamazon.co.uk/gp/product/1785451995?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>}}1785451995]]
{{newreview
|author=Richard Horne
|title=A is for Armageddon
|rating=2.5
|genre=Humour
|summary=The world is definitely going to hell in a handcart. We're only just preventing lethal global warming by having a credit crunch that has prevented a lot of big building, air travel, and consumerism. The population is getting so obese there is no room for any more of us - and add that to the exploding population statistics, and it's never going to look better. And don't get me started on where all the bees have gone...
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{{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, [[Conversations 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.|amazonukKammie by Annie Ingram]]===<amazonuk>0340994533</amazonuk>}}
[[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{newreview|author=Jane Austen and Seth Grahame-Smith |title=Pride and Prejudice and Zombies|rating=4.5}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Pets|genre=Pets]], [[:Category:Humour|summary=Ah, the benefits to a good book of a classic first line. 'Call me Ishmael.' 'It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.' Who can forget Iain Banks' 'It was the day my grandmother exploded'? Or those timeless words by Jane Austen, 'It is a truth universally acknowledged that a zombie in possession of brains must be in want of more brains.'|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1594743347</amazonuk>}}Humour]]
{{newreview|author=Harry Hill|title=Tim The Tiny Horse At Large|rating=4|genre=Humour|summary=It's been was something of a while since Tim relief when I encountered Annie Ingram and Fly's [[Tim the Tiny Horse by Harry Hill|last adventures]]her cocker spaniel Kammie. You see, and changes are afoot in Tim's tiny world: Fly is getting married Annie knows something which has been self-evident to his girlfriend. Tim's me for a little worried because they've only known each other for long time: dogs are perfectly capable of communicating with humans and not just on a weeklevel of food!, walk! or play!. The marriage goes aheadYou do require extensive training to become fluent, but most dogs will be perfectly willing to give their time to teach you and Tim finds himself kicking his heels, so he gets a petall you have to do is listen. And so Annie has studied hard: Kammie has trained her well and the brief episodes in the life pair have allowed us to share some of a horse who lives in a matchbox continuetheir conversations.[[Conversations with Kammie by Annie Ingram|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571244157</amazonuk>}}Full Review]]
{{newreview<!-- Harris -->|author=Spike Milligan-|titlestyle=The Magical World of Milligan"width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"||rating=4[[image:Harris_Glass.5jpg|genrelink=Confident Readers|summary=Some people you just have to lovehttp://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/dp/1908943823/ref=nosim?tag=<amazonuk>1905264844</amazonuk>}}thebookbag-21]]
{{newreview
|author=Sam Savage
|title=The Cry of the Sloth
|rating=3.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Meet Andrew Whittaker. In some untold time of recent American history, he is forced through a failed marriage and an artistic temperament at odds with so many other people, to let properties to tenants he does not like, for $120 a month. The lodgers might not like the state of the buildings - ceilings falling through and so on - but that's another matter. He would much prefer to be left alone in front of his little Olivetti typewriter and create art. He runs a literary journal, of a kind, called "Soap", which no-one likes, no-one reads (and often, with dodgy, cheap printing, no-one could physically read it anyway), and which makes him poorer in time, money and spirit.
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{{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 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 Breaking of the book. This is not a cocktail thing. Not even a "Bloody Mary" thing. Liam Glass by Charles Harris]]===
Well, except for the tiny bit that is, but you'll discover that in due course[[image:3star.jpg|amazonuklink=<amazonuk>1841498092</amazonuk>Category:{{{rating}}}Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime|Crime]], [[:Category:Humour|Humour]]
{{newreview|author=Hugh Murr Teenager Liam Glass is mugged and Sid Nigtures |title=Cyber Sign Offs|rating=2|genre=Humour|summary=I admit I had stabbed yards from his Camden flat. As the wrong end of boy lies comatose, desperate journalist Jason Worthington scrabbles for the stick when it came to this bookinside scoop, before I opened it at least. I had assumed it was tired police officer Andy Rockham searches for a collection of real-life on-line signatures missing tape, harried politician Jamila Hasan fights for re- we've all seen themelection, those straplines people have on all their forum posts. The obvious response would have been along the lines of 'fair enoughdistraught mother Katrina Glass waits by her son, but why is this a book and gym-owner Royland simply finds himself in the wrong place at the wrong time. We follow this day and age, and not a website?'. But no. This is a collection host of dialogues between two people - shall we call them Sue deNim and Allie Bye, who have ensemble characters in a line or two to say to each otherbleak, and a made-up name (sorry, make that May Dupp-Name) with which to sign it offkaleidoscopic satire of modern media. Much jolly nonsense ensues.[[The Breaking of Liam Glass by Charles Harris|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1904312497</amazonuk>}}Full Review]]
{{newreview<!-- LENTE -->|author=Tim Fitzhigham -|titlestyle=All at Sea"width: 10%; vertical-align: One Man. One Bathtub. One Very Bad Ideatop; text-align: Conquering the Channel in a Piece of Plumbingcenter;"|[[image:Lente_10.jpg|ratinglink=4http://www.amazon.co.5|genreuk/dp/1683690222/ref=Travel|summarynosim?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.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848090269</amazonuk>}}21]]
| style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Ten Dead Comedians: A Murder Mystery by Fred Van Lente]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{newreview{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Humour|Humour]] Nine comedians are invited to a remote Caribbean island under the guise of working with Dustin Walker, a comedic legend. Each fits neatly into one of the archetypal comic stereotypes: Steve, the washed-up has-been who has fallen far from his early days; Zoe, the rising female star with a new stand-up special coming soon; Dante, who went from being a kid on the streets to the hardest working road comic in the business; Oliver, the child-like prop comic who can't get any respect from his peers; Janet, the insult comic who is past her prime; TJ, the nightly variety show host with a reputation for harassing his female colleagues and guest acts; Ruby, the ultra-feminist YouTuber and Blogger with a chip on her shoulder; and William, whose redneck character ''Billy the Contractor'' is a far cry from his real personality as a posh millionaire. Of course, all nine agree because ''when God almighty walks down on a beam of light and asks for your help, what the hell else are you going to say?'' [[Ten Dead Comedians: A Murder Mystery by Fred Van Lente|Full Review]] <!-- Scott -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Scott_Eliz.jpg|authorlink=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]]===Simon Brett [[image:4.5star.jpg|titlelink=BlottoCategory:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Humour|Humour]] Ally is an ordinary woman with teenage children, Twinks 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 ExBard 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-Kingalign: 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 DaughterCase: 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="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Jordan_Tiny.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1760293814/ref=4nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] |genrestyle=Humour"vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Our Tiny, Useless Hearts by Toni Jordan]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|summarylink=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 can be few people who have written eighty books without me even having picked up one 's the split and the awkwardness of themthe girls' schoolteacher being the other woman for a start. Then there's that mistaken identity moment involving the neighbours. At leastJanice is well adjusted and over her ex-husband Alec. She still dreams of him, yes, and but it's so over! Just as well really… guess who's at lastthe door? [[Our Tiny, Useless Hearts by Toni Jordan|Full Review]] <!-- Taylor -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Taylor_Scilly.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/178475515X/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The Life of a Scilly Sergeant by Colin Taylor]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Travel|Travel]], [[:Category:Humour|Humour]] Meet the Isles of Scilly. (I have redressed know they should be called that fault – the author provides a handy guide to the etiquette of their name, their nature and location, etc.) For our more distant readers, they're several chunks of granite rock out in the Atlantic, where Cornwall is pointing, with just 2,200 permanent residents. They're big on tourism, and big on growing flowers in the case 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 Simon Brettthem 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 arrival of the relatives and the food shopping delivery. Little does Mum know that those two elements alone have come the potential to ruin everything. [['Twas the conclusion there are 79 more that will be worth investigatingFight 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 Got Nits by Gervase Phinn]]=== [[image:4.5star. Here jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Humour|Humour]], [[:Category:Anthologies|Anthologies]] Christmas in our house is the time we meet 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 first time Blotto (posh idiotic son wonder of Christmas as a dowager duchess) 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 Twinks (posh brilliant genius sister prescribed, read on. In these pages you too will see that Romeo had lots of options en route to Blotto)hitting the bottle. Likewise, their familyshe could have turned away from her predestined path at no end of junctures. And to what result? Well, their surroundingshappy marriage and a kid called Ben, because the leads have just banged people's heads together and stopped the corpse inconveniently disturbing quarrelling, or Death by Tybalt (him) or a long life running an establishment curing murderous women, such as a dinner partyLady M (her).[[Romeo and/or Juliet by Ryan North|Full Review]] |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1845299353</amazonuk!-- DO NOT REMOVE ANYTHING BELOW THIS LINE -->}|}
