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[[Category:New Reviews|Humour]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreview|authorclass-"wikitable" cellpadding=Colin Taylor"15" <!-- INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE-->|title=The Life of a Scilly Sergeant<!-- Hogan -->|rating=4.5-|genrestyle=Travel"width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1473669065.jpg|summarylink=Meet the Isles of Scillyhttp://www.amazon.co. (I know they should be called that – the author provides a handy guide to the etiquette of their name, their nature and location, etcuk/dp/1473669065/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Queenie Malone's Paradise Hotel by Ruth Hogan]]=== [[image:5star.) For our more distant readersjpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]], they're several chunks [[:Category:Humour|Humour]], [[:Category:Paranormal|Paranormal]] Tilda returns to Brighton, to tidy away the remains of granite rock out in her mother's life after her death. Whilst there, she returns to the AtlanticParadise hotel, a haven for eccentrics and misfits. A place where Cornwall is pointingpeople can be themselves, with just 2,200 permanent residentsand let go of thoughts that torment them elsewhere. They're big on tourismLittle wonder that Tilda cannot forgive her mother for banishing her as a child, from this place of wonder. With the help of Queenie Malone, caring, and big on growing flowers in gregarious, Tilda begins to pick apart 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 idyllictricky and uncertain relationship she had with her sometimes cruel and distant mother. [[Queenie Malone's Paradise Hotel by Ruth Hogan|Full Review]] <!-- van LENTE --seeming, especially at night, you can be mistaken for thinking there would be no need for a police presence>|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1683690346. But there is – at least two working at any one timejpg|link=http://www.amazon.co. And one of them in recent years has been Colin Taylor, who has done his official duty – alongside maintaining a welluk/dp/1683690346/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-known online existence, which has brought to life all the whimsical comedy of his work.align: left;"||amazonuk=<amazonuk>178475515X</amazonuk>==[[The Con Artist by Fred Van Lente]]===}}[[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{newreview{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime|author=Josie Lloyd and Emlyn ReesCrime]], [[:Category:Humour|title='Twas the Fight Before Christmas: A ParodyHumour]]|rating=3.5|genre=Humour|summary=It's Christmas Eve Comic-Cons are a place of wonder and Mum has arranged everything. All she now has to do is await sanctuary for many people, and when Comic book artist Mike Mason arrives at San Diego Comic-Con, he's looking for both that and sanctuary with other fans and creators, plus the arrival chance of maybe, just maybe reuniting with his ex. However, when his rival is found dead, Mike is forced to navigate every dark corner of the relatives and the food shopping delivery. Little does Mum know that those two elements alone have the potential con in order to clear his name – from cosplay flash mobs and intrusive fans to ruin everything.|amazonuk=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|Full Review]]  <amazonuk>1472125118</amazonuk!-- Coulton -->}}{{newreview|-|authorstyle=Ryan North"width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1473669588.jpg|titlelink=Romeo andhttp://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1473669588/or Julietref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]|rating=3.5|genre=Humour|summarystyle=For all those who think tragedy plots are too restricted and prescribed, read on"vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Falling Short by Lex Coulton]]=== [[image:4star. In these pages you too will see that Romeo had lots of options en route to hitting the bottle. Likewisejpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]], she could have turned away from her predestined path at no end of junctures. And to what result? Well[[:Category:Humour|Humour]], happy marriage and [[:Category:Women's Fiction|Women's Fiction]] Lex Coulton's debut novel is a kid called Benstory about mistakes, failures, because the leads have just banged people's heads together and stopped the quarrellingrelationships. The main protagonist, Frances Pilgrim, or Death by Tybalt (him) or is a long life running an establishment curing murderous womensixth form English teacher who has recently fallen out with her best friend Jackson, such as a Lady M (work colleague, and is grappling with the increasingly eccentric behaviour of her)mother. This relationship is complicated by the fact that Frances's father disappeared at sea when she was five years old. [[Falling Short by Lex Coulton|Full Review]]|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0356508536</amazonuk>}}{{newreview<!-- van LENTE -->|author= Gervase Phinn-|titlestyle= The Virgin Mary's Got Nits"width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1683690346.jpg|ratinglink= 4http://www.amazon.co.5uk/dp/1683690346/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  |genrestyle= Humour"vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"||summary= Christmas in our house is the time we tend to get on a plane and head to either sun or snow==[[The Con Artist by Fred Van Lente]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime|Crime]], anywhere that is far[[:Category:Humour|Humour]] Comic-Cons are a place of wonder and sanctuary for many people, far away from the madness and when Comic book artist Mike Mason arrives at home, last minute dashes to the shops on Christmas EveSan Diego Comic-Con, he's looking for both that and sanctuary with other fans and food cupboard stockpiles that would imply supermarkets are shutting for a monthcreators, nor a mere 36 hours. But I do remember plus the feeling chance of Christmas when I was youngermaybe, just maybe reuniting with his ex. However, back when it was magicalhis 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 back when you knew exactly what the season would bring with carol concerts intrusive fans to zombie obstacle courses – Mike must prove his innocence 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, in doing so, may just unravel a dark secret behind a legendary industry creator.[[The Con Artist by Fred Van Lente|Full Review]] |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444779400</amazonuk!-- Curran -->}}{{newreview|author= Kieran Crowley-|titlestyle= Shoot|rating= 4"width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1683690133.jpg|genrelink=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1683690133/ref= Crimenosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  |summarystyle= I make something of a habit of being late to discover good writers, in this case getting to Crowley after he is no longer with us"vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[My Lady's Choosing by Kitty Curran and Larissa Zageris]]=== [[image:4star. The result is that what is billed as ''an F.X. Shepherd mystery'' with all the optimism jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Humour|Humour]], [[:Category:Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]] You are a lass of there being more to come has the poignancy of beingtwenty eight. Plucky, if not penniless and in Regency era London the last of race is on to find a short line, certainly one of a fewsuitable suitor - or else doom yourself to life as an eternal spinster. F.X. Shepherd – he doesnAlong your journey you't like his first name ll be accompanied by Lady Evangeline Youngblood - a fiesty noble eager to save you from a life alone, and prefers just "Shepherd" is, technically, a columnist. He's been sacked fired by one New York newspaper and is writing a weekly column rogueish sense for anotheradventure. I don't know much about journalism, but I'm guessing one column a week doesn't pay much as a rule…which explains why Shepherd's soap-washed-foul-mouthed editor (read the bookWhen it comes to suitors though, you'll see what I mean) expects him have to turn in some genuine journalism as well: front pagemake the ultimate decision between witty, pretty and wealthy Sir Benedict Granville, wholesome, rugged and caring Captain Angus MacTaggart, or the mad, seat of your pants stuffbad and terrifyingly sexy Lord Garraway Craven. With orphans, werewolves, long lost lovers and ancient Egyptian artifcats along the way, it's clear this isn't going to be an easy decision... [[My Lady's Choosing by Kitty Curran and Larissa Zageris|Full Review]] |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783296518</amazonuk>}}{{newreview<!-- Jester -->|author=Gray Jolliffe-|titlestyle=The First Ever Christmas"width: And Who to Blame10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Jester_Forever.jpg|ratingleft|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1510704361?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=51510704361]] |genre=Humour|summarystyle=If I tell you "vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Forever After: a secretdark comedy by David Jester]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Paranormal|Paranormal]], will you promise not to tell anyone? Well[[:Category:Horror|Horror]], I really don't like Christmas[[:Category: it's my least favourite time of year Fantasy|Fasntasy]] Michael Holland is a cocky and brash young man who dies and whilst some people count down to gets made the day itself, I look forward to that point when I can say that it's all over for another yearoffer of his lifetime; immortality. It's all too commercialised for meWe follow Michael, with a coating of faux religion. I've never found it grim reaper and his friends Chip (a stoner tooth fairy) and Naff (a stoner in the least funny - that is, until I found Gray Jolliffe's ''The First Ever Christmas: And Who's records department) as they grapple with their long lives and finding a clean surface to Blame''sit on in their flat. Amazingly, I'd never encountered Gray Jolliffe either, but I'm [[Forever After: a convert to his skills as a cartoonist (if not to the idea of Christmas) after reading this collection of Christmasdark comedy by David Jester|Full Review]] <!-- Stibbe --themed cartoons from his archive.>|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445663503</amazonuk>}}{{newreview-|authorstyle=Jonathan Pugh"width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|title=Pugh's New Year's Resolutions|rating=4[[image:Stibbe_Xmas.5jpg|genre=Humourleft|summarylink=If there's one thing that's for certain, it's that the world is changinghttps://www.amazon.co. We're dating online, we're communicating in ways that make email seem redundant, and when we're shopping we just tell a website where and when it can be delivered, and how much leeway they have to swap our wishes for whatever it is they do bring usuk/gp/product/0241309824?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=0241309824]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[An Almost Perfect Christmas by Nina Stibbe]]=== [[image:4.5star. But those changes are also supposed to be affecting us jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Humour|Humour]], [[:Category:Short Stories|Short Stories]] Christmas – we're supposed the time of traditional trauma. You only have to use think about the turkey for that – once upon a smart watch time it was leaving it sat on the downstairs loo to tell us defrost overnight, and if we're moving or not, we have to keep up with that failed the latest fads, and wehair-dryer shoved inside it treatment was your next best bet. Nowadays it're supposed s all having to prick our ears up and take note when the proverbial make sure it'they' change their minds about what we're supposed s suitably free-range and organic – but not too organic that you can go and visit it, and get too friendly with it to want to eatit.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780722885</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Luke Rhinehart|title= Invasion|rating= 4Christmas, though, is of course also a time of great boons.5|genre= Humour |summary=Super-intelligent furry aliens suddenly appear from another universe. And theyIt've come to earth to have fun. Alien Louie follows fisherman Billy Morton home one days cash in hand for a lot of plump people who can hire red suits and beards, and he and his family quickly come to love it was always a godsend for postmen with all the playful alien. But when Louie starts using their computer thank-you letters to hack into government and corporate networks, stealing millions from banks to give to others, they realise aunties you saw twice a decade that Louie and his friends mean trouble. As Billy and his family begin your parents made you write out in long-hand as a roller coaster ride of fame child, and fortune, as for the makers of Meltis Newberry Fruits – well as a ranking high on the FBI's most wanted list, the Government soon decides that these aliens are terrorists, did they even try and must be eliminated. Whilst the aliens are playing games they hope will help humans to see the insanity sell them any other time of the American political, economic and military systems, they soon come to realise that the Powers that Be don't play games: they make war. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785651757</amazonukyear? [[An Almost Perfect Christmas by Nina Stibbe|Full Review]] <!-- Doescher -->}}{{newreview|author=Rod Green-|titlestyle=Only Fools and Horses"width: 10%; vertical-align: The Peckham Archives|rating=4top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Doescher_Will.jpg|left|genrelink=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/159474985X?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=Entertainment 1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=159474985X]]  |summarystyle=We are in the world of one of the country"vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[William Shakespeare's most famous and well-loved sitcoms – even if it was sort-of killed off for Christmas 2003the Force Doth Awaken: Star Wars Part the Seventh by Ian Doescher]]=== [[image:4. Yes, there have been specials since5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Science Fiction|Science Fiction]], and more repeats to clog up the BBC schedules than is really pukka[[:Category:Humour|Humour]] A long time ago, but very few people failed in a galaxy far away, there was a man called William Shakespeare, who was able to succumb to its charms at one time or anothercreate a series of dramatic histories full of machinations most foul, rulers most evil and rebellious heroes and heroines most sturdy. I'm sure there You may or may not have been books before now celebrating noticed the stony-faced reception cinematic version of his original stage play for ''that'' drop through the open bar hatch, and 'The Force Doth Awaken'that'' chandelier scene, but this is much more meaty. Purporting to be here at last we get the family archivesactual script, found dumped complete with annoying-in Nelson Mandela House, the documents here were passed from pillar -different-ways-to post-before droids anew, returning heroes from one council worker elsewhere in a department with a clumsy acronym to anotherhis oeuvre, from them to and people keeping it in the police – and now here they are being published for their social history worthfamily til it hurts. Will enough readers find them And if you need further encouragement, don't forget his audience only demanded three parts of worth, Henry VI – here the series is so popular we're on to part seven – surely making this over twice as good… [[William Shakespeare's the Force Doth Awaken: Star Wars Part the series quietly celebrates its 35th birthday?Seventh by Ian Doescher|Full Review]] |amazonuk=<amazonuk!-- Goss -->1849909245</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Mara Wilson-|titlestyle= Where Am I Now?"width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: True Stories of Girlhood and Accidental Famecenter;"|rating= 5[[image:Goss_600.jpg|genre= Autobiographyleft|summarylink= Mara Wilson has always felt a little young and a little out of placehttps: as the only child on a film set full of adults, the first daughter in a house full //www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1785942719?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1785942719]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Doctor Who: Now We Are Six Hundred: A Collection of boys, the sole clinically depressed member of a cheerleading squad, a valley girl in New York Time Lord Verse (Dr Who) by James Goss and a neurotic in California, and an adult the world still remembers as a little girlRussell T Davies]]=== [[image:4.5star. Tackling everything from how she first learned about sex on the set of jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Children's Rhymes and Verse|Children'Melrose Places Rhymes and Verse]], [[:Category:Science Fiction|Science Fiction]],'' [[:Category:Humour|Humour]] Consider the Doctor. Just how many birthday and Christmas gifts must he have to losing her mother at a young agehand out each year, were he to getting her first kiss (or was it kisseskeep in touch with even half of his companions?) on He would certainly need a celebrity canoe tripfew novelty gifts for some of them, say, to not being cute enough to make it in Hollywoodfor example, these essays tell whimsical books of verse that pithily encapsulate the story life of one young woman's journey from accidental fame a Time Lord and that of some of his friends and enemies. As luck would have it, he has the space in his TARDIS to relative obscuritystock up in advance, but also illuminate a universal struggle: learning so my advice to accept yourselfhim – sorry, and figuring out who her – would be to pop along to his local Earth-based book emporium and get himself ready. And if you are 're working on a shorter timescale, with a shorter lifespan, and where you belongthinking 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 (Dr Who) by James Goss and Russell T Davies|Full Review]] |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0143128221</amazonuk!-- Ingram -->}}{{newreview|author= Tony Stuart-|titlestyle= Writing Lines|rating"width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Ingram_Kammie.jpg|left|link= 4https://www.amazon.co.5uk/gp/product/1785451995?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1785451995]] |genre=Humour|summarystyle= George Gordon Wentworth (1946"vertical-2011) lived a humdrum lifealign: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Conversations with Kammie by Annie Ingram]]=== [[image:4star. He was a barely adequate teacher in a fairly world renowned independent school in Kent and kept a copious diary of his quotidian existence. Most of what he recorded jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Pets|Pets]], [[:Category:Humour|Humour]] It was dross. However, amongst all the utterly uninteresting tailings something of his life there were some nuggets a relief when I encountered Annie Ingram and grains to catch the attentionher cocker spaniel Kammie. Author Tony Stuart has created these amusing anecdotesYou see, panning them out over twenty six episodes Annie knows something which give us the best has been self-evident to me for a long time: dogs are perfectly capable of Wentworth – comedy gold. From losing all the pupils in his charge communicating with humans and not just on a school trip to being arrested on suspicion level of terrorism; from waking up in bed between the married couple the morning after their weddingfood!, walk! or play!. You do require extensive training to destroying a ski run; from appearing full-frontal naked in a sheep-farmers' gazette become fluent, but most dogs will be perfectly willing to triggering an air-sea rescue; Wentworth was, blinkered give their time to teach you and all you have to do is listen. Annie has studied hard: Kammie has trained her well and befuddled, the subject – pair have allowed us to share some of these and so many more unlikely but highly amusing eventstheir conversations.[[Conversations with Kammie by Annie Ingram|Full Review]] |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1524634441</amazonuk!-- Harris -->}}{{newreview|author=Graham Fulbright-|titlestyle=Driving Mad"width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: Maniacs, Morons and the Advanced Motorist's Clubcenter;"|[[image:Harris_Glass.jpg|ratinglink=3http://www.5|genre=Humouramazon.co.uk/dp/1908943823/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  |summarystyle=I passed my driving test when John F Kennedy was in the White House and I've recently had to reapply for my driving licence having achieved a venerable age. When I started driving the roads were kinder, more forgiving places "vertical- or put another way, the idiots were fewer and further betweenalign: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The Breaking of Liam Glass by Charles Harris]]=== [[image:3star. I don't know how long Graham Fulbright has been drivingjpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime|Crime]], but he certainly knows [[:Category:Humour|Humour]] Teenager Liam Glass is mugged and stabbed yards from his motoring morons and in ''Driving Mad'' he brings us a fictional sample of their eccentricitiesCamden flat. WellAs the boy lies comatose, desperate journalist Jason Worthington scrabbles for the inside scoop, tired police officer Andy Rockham searches for a missing tape, I'm pretty certain that they'harried politician Jamila Hasan fights for re fictional - but these days you never know.election, 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]] |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783062584</amazonuk!-- LENTE -->}}{{newreview|author=Mario Giordano-|titlestyle=Auntie Poldi and the Sicilian Lions|rating=4"width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Lente_10.jpg|genrelink=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1683690222/ref=Crimenosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  |summarystyle=Poldi had not long been widowed when she decided "vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Ten Dead Comedians: A Murder Mystery by Fred Van Lente]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Humour|Humour]] Nine comedians are invited to move from Bavaria to Sicily with a remote Caribbean island under the intention guise of drinking herself to death. She could, of course, have done this in Germanyworking with Dustin Walker, but she felt that a sea view was essentialcomedic legend. Once there, new friendsEach fits neatly into one of the archetypal comic stereotypes: Steve, family already resident on the island and washed-up has-been who has fallen far from his early days; Zoe, the corpse of rising female star with a young mannew stand-up special coming soon; Dante, his face blown off by who went from being a shotgun, whom she found kid on the local beachstreets to the hardest working road comic in the business; Oliver, intervened to give her life some meaning. the child-like prop comic who can't get any respect from his peers; Janet, the insult comic who is past her prime; For TJ, the nightly variety show host with a while she was a suspectreputation for harassing his female colleagues and guest acts; Ruby, but that (the ultra-feminist YouTuber and Blogger with a chip on her wig) were no obstacle to her falling for Commissario Vito Montana who was assigned to investigate shoulder; and William, whose redneck character ''Billy the caseContractor'' is a far cry from his real personality as a posh millionaire. Assisting him (or having him assist her) came naturally 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 Poldi and before long there was an investigative and personal partnership. At least so far as Poldi was concerned.say?'' [[Ten Dead Comedians: A Murder Mystery by Fred Van Lente|Full Review]] |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908524693</amazonuk!-- Scott -->}}{{newreview|author= Grady Hendrix-|titlestyle= My Best Friend's Exorcism"width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|rating= 5[[image:Scott_Eliz.jpg|genrelink= Horrorhttp://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1788037006/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  |summarystyle="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|=1988==[[Elizabeth, Charleston, South CarolinaWilliam... High school sophomores Abby and Gretchen have been best friends since fourth gradeMe by S Lynn Scott]]=== [[image:4.5star. But after jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Humour|Humour]] Ally is an evening of skinny-dipping goes disatrously wrongordinary woman with teenage children, Gretchen begins to act.a husband and a job.Then comes the day when ordinariness flies out of the window.different. SheIt's moody. Shenot a coincidence that it's irritable. And bizarre incidents keep happening whenever the same day she's nearbyfinds Queen Elizabeth I in the pantry and the Bard of Avon in her bath. AbbyWhat's investigation leads her she going to some startling discoveries - do? Well, Elizabeth and by the time Will have their story reaches its terrifying conclusionown ideas about that! [[Elizabeth, the fate of Abby William... and Gretchen will be determined Me by a single question: Is their friendship enough to beat the devil?S Lynn Scott|Full Review]] |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1594748624</amazonuk!-- Rodford -->}}|-{{newreview|author| style= Kevin MacNeil"width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|title=The Brilliant and Forever[[image:Rodford_Surgeon.jpg|ratinglink= 3http://www.amazon.co.5uk/dp/178565005X/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  |genrestyle= Humour"vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"||summary= You know sometimes when someone tells a joke, everyone else laughs, and you==[[The Surgeon're sat there wondering what was so funny?|amazonuks Case: George Kocharyan Mystery 2 by E G Rodford]]===<amazonuk>1846973376</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Christopher Fowler[[image:4star.jpg|titlelink= Bryant and MayCategory: Strange Tide|{{{rating= 3.5}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime|genre= Crime]], [[:Category:Humour|Humour]]|summary= The thirteenth outing for Bryant and May is looking very much like it will be their last. Arthur Bryant is on compassionate leave whilst tests are continuingIn the second instalment of this series, which are likely Private Investigator George Kocharyan has been hired by a well-known local man to confirm that he is suffering from Alzheimertrack down some missing valuables. Bill Galbraith, a world-famous surgeon at Cambridge's Addenbrooke's. His condition is worsening almost Hospital who hosts a popular medical television programme, has had his briefcase stolen by the dayhis live-in domestic servant, memory lapses are morphing into full-scale hallucinationsAurora.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857523422</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Kevin Smith|title=The Voyage of According to Galbraith, this briefcase contains confidential notes concerning an important patient of his at the Dolphin|rating=5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=Dublin 1916: Among hospital. George agrees to look into the unrest theft, assuming it will be a relatively easy and anti-British feeling worsened by the threat of conscription into a war seen as nothing to do with the Irishstraightforward case – little does he know, Trinity College faculty has other distractions. Theyhe'd like s about to enter a trophy; the skeleton world of an Irish 'giant' to be precise. The only glitch is that the main trophy contender, Bernard MacNeilldeceit and dysfunction. [[The Surgeon's skeleton, is somewhere difficult to access and all seasoned explorers are otherwise engaged. There may be hope thoughCase: 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. They turn to Fitzmaurice, a student not good enough for anything elseco. Fitzmaurice agreesuk/dp/1760293814/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Our Tiny, picking his friends Crozier and Rafferty to go with himUseless Hearts by Toni Jordan]]=== [[image:5star. So… jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Women's Fiction|Women'Gentlemens Fiction]], lace up your strongest boots [[:Category:Humour|Humour]] As predicted by Caroline and pack your warmest underwear – weJanice're all off to the bloody Arctic!s mother on Caroline and Henry'' Whether battle cry or epitaphs wedding day, their marriage is over, three men albeit 15 years and two daughters further along than predicted. Indeed, this is definitely not a dog… and an iguana… are going anywaygood weekend for Janice to be babysitting at Caroline's house.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910124826</amazonuk>|amazonus=<amazonus>1910124826</amazonus>}}{{newreview|author=Tony Hawks|title=Once Upon a Time in There's the split and the awkwardness of the West… Country|rating=3|genre=Travel|summary=I have often complained in girls' schoolteacher being the other woman for a jokey voice to my partner about life in start. Then there's that mistaken identity moment involving the sticks, neighbours. At least Janice is well adjusted and the way she moved me from an innerover her ex-city flat to slumming husband Alec. She still dreams of him, yes, but it in 's so over! Just as well really… guess who's at the suburbs with fewer bussesdoor? [[Our Tiny, no takeaways within walkingUseless Hearts by Toni Jordan|Full Review]] <!-and-keepingTaylor -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-foodalign: top; text-hot distance, and no 'Polish' shops for a can of beer whenever you fancy onealign: center;"|[[image:Taylor_Scilly. Things are different with Tony Hawks, as here he has purposefully decided to up sticks from London to Somewhere, Devon – a tiny village where the people who built their own homes decades ago still live in them, where slugs are a lot more 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 problem for the wannabe lettuce-grower than they are for the metropolitan commuter, and where village halls have the power to turn you into both a Pol Pot dictator if you get on their committee and into a quivering, bruise-inducing wreck if you're the wrong gender at a Zumba class…Scilly Sergeant by Colin Taylor]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|amazonuklink=<amazonuk>1444794809</amazonuk>Category:{{{rating}}}{{newreviewStar Reviews]] [[:Category:Travel|author=Marian KeyesTravel]], [[:Category:Humour|title=Making It Up As I Go AlongHumour]]|rating=4.5|genre=Entertainment|summary=Oh, how Meet the Isles of Scilly. (I know they should be called that – the book reviewing gods like author provides a handy guide to givethe etiquette of their name, their nature and equally like to take awaylocation, etc. Here before me is a brand) For our more distant readers, spanking new collection they're several chunks of journalism by granite rock out in the wonderful Marian Keyes – but it's a proof copyAtlantic, where Cornwall is pointing, so there's no photo of the authorwith just 2,200 permanent residents. Even if over the years I have stopped reading her novelsThey're big on tourism, I have always turned to and big on growing flowers in the author picture to remind myself such sights exist in this world. Himself is tropical climate the Gulf Stream bequeaths them – although the weather is bad enough to turn any car to a lucky man, for surerust bucket within years. But beyond sounding like a letchThey're so wee, what can I say about this – the beauty's third large dose of essaysand so idyllic-seeming, especially at night, web columns and other journalism? I you can start with agreeing that I am not the target audience, but it's easy enough to see from these pages exactly what the target be mistaken for thinking there would be no need for a police presence. But there is– at least two working at any one time. So much like that test you do – you know the And one, that formulates decisions about the age and commonality of all things them in space to come up with how many billions of planets are likely recent years has been Colin Taylor, who has done his official duty – alongside maintaining a well-known online existence, which has brought to have alien life on – you can narrow things down quite readily here, and still come up with all the whimsical comedy of his work. [[The Life of a huge number.Scilly Sergeant by Colin Taylor|Full Review]] |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0718182529</amazonuk!-- Lloyd -->}}{{newreview|author= Jean-Yves Ferri|titlestyle= Asterix and the Missing Scroll (Album 36)"width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|rating= 5[[image:Lloyd_Twas.jpg|genrelink= For Sharing|summary=Asterix is those rarest of book serieshttp://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1472125118/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left; one designed for kids which is actually even funnier when you are an adult"|===[['Twas the Fight Before Christmas: A Parody by Josie Lloyd and Emlyn Rees]]=== [[image:3. I used to love Asterix as a child, but now that I reread them I can5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Humour|Humour]] It't help but wonder why, because they are so full of hilarious jokes that I definitely wouldn't have understood when I was younger. I laughed loud s Christmas Eve and hard Mum has arranged everything. All she now has to myself twice within do is await the first two pages arrival of Asterix the relatives and the Missing Scroll, so I'd definitely say food shopping delivery. Little does Mum know that this was a hit.|amazonuk=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>1510100458</amazonuk!-- Phinn -->}}{{newreview|-|authorstyle=Spadge Whittaker"width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Phinn_Virgin.jpg|left|titlelink=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1444779400/ref=nosim?tag=Braver Than Britain, Occasionallythebookbag-21]] |ratingstyle=4"vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"||genre=Humour|summary=In which Spadge researches Britain=[[The Virgin Mary's top ten fears and faces them all over the course of a yearGot Nits by Gervase Phinn]]=== [[image:4. 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And the things we fear most arejpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Humour|Humour]], [[:Category:Anthologies|Anthologies]] Christmas in order: heights (acrophobia)our house is the time we tend to get on a plane and head to either sun or snow, snakes (ophidiophobia)anywhere that is far, public speaking (glossophobia)far away from the madness at home, spiders (arachnophobia), small spaces (claustrophobia)last minute dashes to the shops on Christmas Eve, mice (musophobia)and food cupboard stockpiles that would imply supermarkets are shutting for a month, needles (trypanophobia), flying (pteromerhanophobia), crowds (agoraphobia) and clowns (coulrophobia)nor a mere 36 hours.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0993429904</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Mike Bullen|title= Trust|rating= 4|genre= General Fiction|summary= Greg 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 Amanda are happyChristmas parties. Unmarried, but together thirteen years and with two young daughters, they are very much in love. Dan and Sarah aren't so fortunate. Their marriage This book is going through the motionsan anthology of those moments, and they're staying together for it took me right back to the sake wonder of their troubled teenage son. Following Christmas as a business conference away from home, one bad decision sends a happy couple into turmoil, and turns an unhappy couple into love's young dreamchild. As secrets and betrayals threaten to send both relationships out of control, there[[The Virgin Mary's only one thing that can keep everything from falling apart: TrustGot Nits by Gervase Phinn|Full Review]] |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0751559253</amazonuk!-- DO NOT REMOVE ANYTHING BELOW THIS LINE -->}}{{newreview|author=Dan Rhodes|title=When the Professor Got Stuck in the Snow|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction|summary= Two people are on a train on their way to, of all things, a WI meeting where the ladies of All Bottoms will be lectured on the non-existence of God. One of the two people is Professor Richard Dawkins, rampant atheist, hectoring scientist chappie, and all-round devotee of ''Deal or No Deal''. The other is Smee, his mono-named assistant, amanuensis or 'male secretary'. Smee will come to the fore when the weather sets in and the train journey has to be abandoned some way short of its ultimate destination, Upper Bottom. Instead the pair fetch up at the isolated yet friendly community of Market Horton, and the only option for accommodation is taken – yes, the died-in-the-wool non-believer has to be housed by a retired vicar and his wife. This clash of titanic opinions, peppered with social faux pas aplenty will provide for a particularly English kind of farcical comedy, but one with the legs to go as far as any other Good Books have reached in the past…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910709018</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Rob Temple|title=Very British Problems Abroad|rating=4|genre=Humour|summary=Meet, if you haven't already, the phenomenon of the Very British Problem. In this format they're in pithy little comments (of, ooh, about 140 characters in length, for some reason…) and detail the minor things in life that we like nothing more than to inflate to a major factor of life. They can involve manners, staring at things until they mend themselves, hitting things ditto, or the fact that nobody apart from you and I know how to queue properly. And if the idea hits the world outside our shores, then – well, you certainly have a book full of content regarding our attitude and ineptitude abroad.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0751558494</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Fraser McAlpine|title=Stuff Brits Like|rating=4|genre=Humour|summary= With over 100 chapters on different aspects of Britain and Britishness, this book is both fascinating and hilarious. Just looking at the list of subjects is enough to produce a sardonic twist of that stiff upper lip: the chapters cover topics that range from offal to curry, from pedantry to banter, from conkers to rugby. There may be many chapters but this is no academic tome - each chapter is just two to three pages long, each is written with endearing affection, each is easy and satisfying - and quirkily funny - to read.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1857886348</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= John Samuel|title= What I Tell You in the Dark|rating= 3.5|genre= Humour|summary=A man called Will is fighting fiercely against corruption – desperate to expose his company's dodgy dealings to the press. Overcome with doubt and fear, he goes to kill himself. But, at the exact moment he attaches his noose to the back of the door, he is saved. By a curious housemate or a concerned girlfriend? No, by an Angel. Not the white-feathered guardian Angel you may expect, but one who wishes to help Will achieve his ends, and so possess the body of the hapless Will in order to finish what he started. It goes without saying that the Angel is hoping things go better than they did with the last guy he possessed – a hapless young man from Galilee called Jesus…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0715650505</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= John Niven|title= The Sunshine Cruise Company|rating= 4.5|genre= Humour|summary= Susan Frobisher and Julie Wickham live in a small Dorset town. Friends since school, they live fairly uneventful lives – Susan has a lovely house and a lengthy marriage to accountant Barry, whereas Julie is doing slightly less well – living in a council flat and working in an old people's home. When Barry is found dead trussed up in a sex dungeon, it transpires that he has been leading a hidden life for years, and his expensive fetishes lead to the bank moving to take Susan's home. Struck by both desperation and a sense of injustice, Sue and Julie conspire to rob a bank, taking along their friend Jill – a devout Christian conflicted due to lack of money and a terminally ill grandson, and Ethel – a foul mouthed resident of the nursing home longing for adventure.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0434023183</amazonuk>}}