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[[Category:New Reviews|Humour]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreview|authorclass-"wikitable" cellpadding=Toni Jordan"15" <!-- INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE-->|title=Our Tiny, Useless Hearts<!-- Hogan -->|rating=5-|genrestyle=Women's Fiction"width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1473669065.jpg|summarylink=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1473669065/ref=nosim?tag=As predicted by Caroline and Janice's mother on Caroline and Henrythebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Queenie Malone's wedding day, their marriage is over, albeit 15 years and two daughters further along than predicted. IndeedParadise Hotel by Ruth Hogan]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]], [[:Category:Humour|Humour]], [[:Category:Paranormal|Paranormal]] Tilda returns to Brighton, this is definitely not a good weekend for Janice to be babysitting at Carolinetidy away the remains of her mother's houselife after her death. There's Whilst there, she returns to the split Paradise hotel, a haven for eccentrics and the awkwardness misfits. A place where people can be themselves, and let go of the girls' schoolteacher being the other woman thoughts that torment them elsewhere. Little wonder that Tilda cannot forgive her mother for banishing her as a startchild, from this place of wonder. Then there's that mistaken identity moment involving With the help of Queenie Malone, caring, and gregarious, Tilda begins to pick apart the neighbours. At least Janice is well adjusted tricky and over uncertain relationship she had with her ex-husband Alecsometimes cruel and distant mother. She still dreams of him, yes, but it's so over[[Queenie Malone's Paradise Hotel by Ruth Hogan|Full Review]] <! Just as well really… guess who's at the door?-- van LENTE -->|-|amazonukstyle=<amazonuk>1760293814<"width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1683690346.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1683690346/amazonuk>ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]}}{{newreview|authorstyle=Colin Taylor"vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"||title===[[The Life of a Scilly Sergeant|ratingCon Artist by Fred Van Lente]]===4.5|genre=Travel[[image:4star.jpg|summarylink=Meet the Isles of Scilly. (I know they should be called that – the author provides Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime|Crime]], [[:Category:Humour|Humour]] Comic-Cons are a handy guide to the etiquette place of their namewonder and sanctuary for many people, their nature and locationwhen Comic book artist Mike Mason arrives at San Diego Comic-Con, etc.) For our more distant readershe's looking for both that and sanctuary with other fans and creators, they're several chunks plus the chance of granite rock out in the Atlantic, where Cornwall is pointingmaybe, just maybe reuniting with just 2his ex. However,200 permanent residents. They're big on tourismwhen his rival is found dead, and big on growing flowers in the tropical climate the Gulf Stream bequeaths them – although the weather Mike is bad enough forced to turn any car navigate every dark corner of the con in order to a rust bucket within years. They're so wee, clear his name – from cosplay flash mobs and intrusive fans to zombie obstacle courses – Mike must prove his innocence and, in doing so idyllic-seeming, especially at night, you can be mistaken for thinking there would be no need for may just unravel a dark secret behind a police presencelegendary industry creator. But there is – at least two working at any one time[[The Con Artist by Fred Van Lente|Full Review]]  <!-- Coulton -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1473669588. And one of them in recent years has been Colin Taylor, who has done his official duty – alongside maintaining a welljpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1473669588/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-known online existence, which has brought to life all the whimsical comedy of his work.21]]  |amazonukstyle=<amazonuk>178475515X</amazonuk>}}"vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|{{newreview|author=Josie Lloyd and Emlyn Rees|title='Twas the Fight Before Christmas: A Parody|rating=3.5[[Falling Short by Lex Coulton]]===|genre=Humour[[image:4star.jpg|summarylink=It's Christmas Eve Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]], [[:Category:Humour|Humour]], [[:Category:Women's Fiction|Women's Fiction]] Lex Coulton's debut novel is a story about mistakes, failures, and Mum has arranged everythingrelationships. All she now The main protagonist, Frances Pilgrim, is a sixth form English teacher who has to do recently fallen out with her best friend Jackson, a work colleague, and is await grappling with the arrival increasingly eccentric behaviour of the relatives and the food shopping deliveryher mother. Little does Mum know This relationship is complicated by the fact that those two elements alone have the potential to ruin everythingFrances's father disappeared at sea when she was five years old.[[Falling Short by Lex Coulton|Full Review]] |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472125118</amazonuk!-- van LENTE -->}}{{newreview|-|authorstyle=Ryan North"width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1683690346.jpg|titlelink=Romeo andhttp://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1683690346/or Julietref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  |ratingstyle=3.5"vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"||genre=Humour==[[The Con Artist by Fred Van Lente]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|summarylink=For all those who think tragedy plots are too restricted and prescribedCategory:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime|Crime]], read on. In these pages you too will see that Romeo had lots [[:Category:Humour|Humour]] Comic-Cons are a place of options en route to hitting the bottle. Likewisewonder and sanctuary for many people, she could have turned away from her predestined path and when Comic book artist Mike Mason arrives at no end of junctures. And to what result? WellSan Diego Comic-Con, happy marriage and a kid called Ben, because the leads have just banged peoplehe's heads together looking for both that and stopped sanctuary with other fans and creators, plus the quarrellingchance of maybe, or Death by Tybalt (him) or a long life running an establishment curing murderous womenjust maybe reuniting with his ex. However, when his rival is found dead, such as a Lady M (her). |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0356508536</amazonukMike is forced to navigate every dark corner of the con in order to clear his name – from cosplay flash mobs and intrusive fans to zombie obstacle courses – Mike must prove his innocence and, in doing so, may just unravel a dark secret behind a legendary industry creator. [[The Con Artist by Fred Van Lente|Full Review]] <!-- Curran -->}}{{newreview|-|authorstyle= Gervase Phinn"width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|title= The Virgin Mary's Got Nits[[image:1683690133.jpg|ratinglink= 4http://www.amazon.co.5uk/dp/1683690133/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  |genrestyle= Humour"vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[My Lady's Choosing by Kitty Curran and Larissa Zageris]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|summarylink= Christmas in our house is the time we tend to get on Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Humour|Humour]], [[:Category:Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]] You are a plane lass of twenty eight. Plucky, penniless and head in Regency era London the race is on to either sun find a suitable suitor - or snow, anywhere that is far, far away else doom yourself to life as an eternal spinster. Along your journey you'll be accompanied by Lady Evangeline Youngblood - a fiesty noble eager to save you from the madness at homea life alone, last minute dashes and fired by a rogueish sense for adventure. When it comes to suitors though, you'll have to make the shops on Christmas Eveultimate decision between witty, pretty and wealthy Sir Benedict Granville, wholesome, rugged and food cupboard stockpiles that would imply supermarkets are shutting for a monthcaring Captain Angus MacTaggart, nor a mere 36 hoursor the mad, bad and terrifyingly sexy Lord Garraway Craven. But I do remember the feeling of Christmas when I was youngerWith orphans, back when it was magicalwerewolves, long lost lovers and back when you knew exactly what ancient Egyptian artifcats along the season would bring with carol concerts and school nativities and Christmas partiesway, it's clear this isn't going to be an easy decision... This book is an anthology of those moments, [[My Lady's Choosing by Kitty Curran and it took me right back to the wonder of Christmas as a child.|amazonuk=Larissa Zageris|Full Review]] <amazonuk!-- Jester -->1444779400</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Kieran Crowley-|titlestyle= Shoot|rating= 4"width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Jester_Forever.jpg|genreleft|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1510704361?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN= Crime1510704361]]  |summarystyle= I make something of "vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Forever After: a habit of being late to discover good writers, in this case getting to Crowley after he is no longer with usdark comedy by David Jester]]=== [[image:4star. The result jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Paranormal|Paranormal]], [[:Category:Horror|Horror]], [[:Category:Fantasy|Fasntasy]] Michael Holland is that what is billed as ''an Fa cocky and brash young man who dies and gets made the offer of his lifetime; immortality.X. Shepherd mystery'' with all the optimism of there being more to come has the poignancy of beingWe follow Michael, if not the last of a short line, certainly one of grim reaper and his friends Chip (a stoner tooth fairy) and Naff (a few. F.X. Shepherd – he doesn't like his first name stoner in the records department) as they grapple with their long lives and prefers just "Shepherd" is, technically, finding a columnistclean surface to sit on in their flat. He's been sacked [[Forever After: a dark comedy by one New York newspaper and is writing a weekly column for another. 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 soapDavid Jester|Full Review]] <!-- Stibbe -washed-foul>|-mouthed editor (read the book, you'll see what I mean) expects him to turn in some genuine journalism as well| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image: front page, seat of your pants stuffStibbe_Xmas. jpg|left|amazonuklink=<amazonuk>1783296518<https://amazonuk>}}www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0241309824?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=0241309824]]{{newreview|author=Gray Jolliffe|titlestyle=The First Ever Christmas"vertical-align: top; text-align: And Who to Blameleft;"||rating=5|genre=Humour|summary=If I tell you a secret, will you promise not to tell anyone? Well, I really don't like [[An Almost Perfect Christmasby Nina Stibbe]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category: it's my least favourite time of year and whilst some people count down {{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Humour|Humour]], [[:Category:Short Stories|Short Stories]] Christmas – the time of traditional trauma. You only have to think about the day itself, I look forward to turkey for that point when I can say – once upon a time it was leaving it sat on the downstairs loo to defrost overnight, and if that failed the hair-dryer shoved inside it treatment was your next best bet. Nowadays it's all over for another year. Ithaving to make sure it's all too commercialised for mesuitably free-range and organic – but not too organic that you can go and visit it, and get too friendly with it to want to eat it. Christmas, though, is of course also a coating time of faux religiongreat boons. IIt've never found it s cash in the least funny hand for a 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 isyour parents made you write out in long-hand as a child, until I found Gray Jolliffe's ''The First Ever 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 Christmasby Nina Stibbe|Full Review]] <!-- Doescher -->|-| style="width: And Who's to Blame''10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Doescher_Will.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co. Amazingly, I'd never encountered Gray Jolliffe either, but I'm a convert to his skills as a cartoonist (if not to the idea of Christmas) after reading this collection of Christmasuk/gp/product/159474985X?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-themed cartoons from his archive.|amazonuk21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=<amazonuk>1445663503</amazonuk>159474985X]]}}{{newreview|authorstyle="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|==Jonathan Pugh|title=Pugh[[William Shakespeare's New Year's Resolutionsthe Force Doth Awaken: Star Wars Part the Seventh by Ian Doescher]]=== |rating=[[image:4.55star.jpg|genrelink=HumourCategory:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Science Fiction|summary=If there's one thing that's for certainScience Fiction]], it's that the world is changing. We're dating online[[:Category:Humour|Humour]] A long time ago, we're communicating in ways that make email seem redundanta galaxy far away, and when we're shopping we just tell there was a website where and when it can be deliveredman called William Shakespeare, and how much leeway they have who was able to swap our wishes for whatever it is they do bring uscreate a series of dramatic histories full of machinations most foul, rulers most evil and rebellious heroes and heroines most sturdy. But those changes are also supposed to be affecting us – we're supposed to use a smart watch to tell us if we're moving You may or may not, we have to keep up with noticed the latest fads, and wecinematic version of his original stage play for ''re supposed to prick our ears up and take note when the proverbial The Force Doth Awaken'they' change their minds about what , but here at last we're supposed get the actual script, complete with annoying-in-different-ways-to eat.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780722885</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Luke Rhinehart|title= Invasion|rating= 4.5|genre= Humour |summary=Super-intelligent furry aliens suddenly appear -before droids anew, returning heroes from another universe. elsewhere in his oeuvre, and people keeping it in the family til it hurts. And theyif you need further encouragement, don've come to earth to have fun. Alien Louie follows fisherman Billy Morton home one day, and he and t forget his family quickly come to love audience only demanded three parts of Henry VI – here the playful alien. But when Louie starts using their computer series is so popular we're on to hack into government and corporate networks, stealing millions from banks to give to others, they realise that Louie and his friends mean trouble. As Billy and his family begin a roller coaster ride of fame and fortune, as well part seven – surely making this over twice as a ranking high on the FBIgood… [[William Shakespeare's most wanted list, the Government soon decides that these aliens are terrorists, and must be eliminated. Whilst Force Doth Awaken: Star Wars Part the aliens are playing games they hope will help humans to see the insanity 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. Seventh by Ian Doescher|amazonuk=Full Review]] <amazonuk>1785651757</amazonuk!-- Goss -->}}{{newreview|author=Rod Green-|titlestyle=Only Fools and Horses"width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: The Peckham Archivescenter;"|rating=4[[image:Goss_600.jpg|genre=Entertainment left|summarylink=We are in the world of one of the country's most famous and wellhttps://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1785942719?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-loved sitcoms – even if it was sort-of killed off for Christmas 2003. Yes, there have been specials since, 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 Time Lord Verse (Dr Who) by James Goss and more repeats to clog up the BBC schedules than is really pukka, but very few people failed to succumb to its charms at one time or anotherRussell T Davies]]=== [[image:4.5star. Ijpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Children'm sure there have been books before now celebrating the stony-faced reception of s Rhymes and Verse|Children''that'' drop through the open bar hatch, s Rhymes and ''that'' chandelier sceneVerse]], but this is much more meaty. Purporting to be the family archives[[:Category:Science Fiction|Science Fiction]], found dumped in Nelson Mandela House[[:Category:Humour|Humour]] Consider the Doctor. Just how many birthday and Christmas gifts must he have to hand out each year, the documents here were passed from pillar he to post, from one council worker keep in a department touch with even half of his companions? He would certainly need a clumsy acronym to anotherfew novelty gifts for some of them, say, for example, from them to whimsical books of verse that pithily encapsulate the police – life of a Time Lord and now here they are being published for their social history worth. Will enough readers find them that of worth, as the series quietly celebrates its 35th birthday?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849909245</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Mara Wilson|title= Where Am I Now?: True Stories some of Girlhood his friends and Accidental Fame|rating= 5|genre= Autobiography|summary= Mara Wilson enemies. As luck would have it, he has always felt a little young and a little out of place: as the only child on a film set full of adults, the first daughter space in his TARDIS to stock up in a house full of boysadvance, the sole clinically depressed member of so my advice to him – sorry, her – would be to pop along to his local Earth-based book emporium and get himself ready. And if you're working on a cheerleading squadshorter timescale, with a valley girl in New York and a neurotic in Californiashorter lifespan, and an adult the world still remembers as a little girlthinking perhaps just one gift season ahead, well my advice is pretty much the same. Tackling everything from how she first learned about sex on the set [[Doctor Who: Now We Are Six Hundred: A Collection of ''Melrose Place,'' to losing her mother at a young age, to getting her first kiss Time Lord Verse (or was it kisses?Dr Who) on a celebrity canoe trip, to not being cute enough to make it in Hollywood, these essays tell the story of one young woman's journey from accidental fame to relative obscurity, but also illuminate a universal struggle: learning to accept yourself, by James Goss and figuring out who you are and where you belong. Russell T Davies|Full Review]] |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0143128221</amazonuk!-- Ingram -->}}{{newreview|-|authorstyle= Tony Stuart"width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Ingram_Kammie.jpg|titleleft|link= Writing Lineshttps://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1785451995?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1785451995]]|rating= 4.5|genre=Humour|summarystyle= George Gordon Wentworth (1946"vertical-align: top; text-2011) lived a humdrum life. He align: left;"|===[[Conversations with Kammie by Annie Ingram]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Pets|Pets]], [[:Category:Humour|Humour]] It was something of a barely adequate teacher in a fairly world renowned independent school in Kent relief when I encountered Annie Ingram and kept a copious diary of his quotidian existenceher cocker spaniel Kammie. Most of what he recorded was dross. HoweverYou see, amongst all the utterly uninteresting tailings Annie knows something which has been self-evident to me for a long time: dogs are perfectly capable of his life there were some nuggets communicating with humans and grains not just on a level of food!, walk! or play!. You do require extensive training to catch the attention. Author Tony Stuart has created these amusing anecdotesbecome fluent, panning them out over twenty six episodes which but most dogs will be perfectly willing to give us the best of Wentworth – comedy gold. From losing their time to teach you and all you have to do is listen. Annie has studied hard: Kammie has trained her well and the pupils in his charge on a school trip pair have allowed us to being arrested on suspicion share some of terrorism; from waking up in bed between the married couple the morning after their wedding, to destroying a ski run; from appearing fullconversations. [[Conversations with Kammie by Annie Ingram|Full Review]] <!-- Harris -frontal naked in a sheep-farmers' gazette to triggering an air>|-sea rescue; Wentworth was, blinkered and befuddled, the subject – of these and so many more unlikely but highly amusing events.|amazonukstyle=<amazonuk>1524634441<"width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Harris_Glass.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1908943823/amazonuk>}}ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]{{newreview|author=Graham Fulbright|titlestyle=Driving Mad"vertical-align: Maniacs, Morons and the Advanced Motorist's Clubtop; text-align: left;"||rating=3.5==[[The Breaking of Liam Glass by Charles Harris]]===|genre=Humour[[image:3star.jpg|summarylink=I passed my driving test when John F Kennedy was in the White House Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime|Crime]], [[:Category:Humour|Humour]] Teenager Liam Glass is mugged and I've recently had to reapply for my driving licence having achieved a venerable agestabbed yards from his Camden flat. When I started driving As the roads were kinderboy lies comatose, more forgiving places - or put another waydesperate journalist Jason Worthington scrabbles for the inside scoop, the idiots were fewer and further between. I don't know how long Graham Fulbright has been drivingtired 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, but he certainly knows his motoring morons and gym-owner Royland simply finds himself in the wrong place at the wrong time. We follow this host of ensemble characters in ''Driving Mad'' he brings us a fictional sample bleak, kaleidoscopic satire of their eccentricitiesmodern media. Well, I'm pretty certain that they're fictional [[The Breaking of Liam Glass by Charles Harris|Full Review]] <!-- LENTE -- but these days you never know...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783062584</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Mario Giordano-|titlestyle=Auntie Poldi and the Sicilian Lions"width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|rating=4[[image:Lente_10.jpg|genrelink=Crimehttp://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1683690222/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  |summarystyle="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|=Poldi had not long been widowed when she decided to move from Bavaria to Sicily with the intention of drinking herself ==[[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 death. She could, a remote Caribbean island under the guise of courseworking with Dustin Walker, have done this in Germany, but she felt that a sea view was essentialcomedic legend. Once thereEach fits neatly into one of the archetypal comic stereotypes: Steve, new friendsthe washed-up has-been who has fallen far from his early days; Zoe, family already resident on the island and 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 beach, intervened streets to give her life some meaning. For a while she was a suspectthe hardest working road comic in the business; Oliver, but that (and her wig) were no obstacle to her falling for Commissario Vito Montana the child-like prop comic who was assigned to investigate can't get any respect from his peers; Janet, the case. insult comic who is past her prime; Assisting him (or having him assist 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) came naturally to Poldi shoulder; and before long there was an investigative and personal partnership. At least so William, whose redneck character ''Billy the Contractor'' is a far cry from his real personality as Poldi was concerneda posh millionaire.|amazonuk=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]] <amazonuk!-- Scott -->1908524693</amazonuk>}}{{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= Horror|summary=1988, Charleston, South Carolinahttp://www.amazon. High school sophomores Abby and Gretchen have been best friends since fourth gradeco. But after an evening of skinnyuk/dp/1788037006/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-dipping goes disatrously wrongalign: left;"|===[[Elizabeth, Gretchen begins to actWilliam...differentand Me by S Lynn Scott]]=== [[image:4. She's moody5star. She's irritablejpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Humour|Humour]] Ally is an ordinary woman with teenage children, a husband and a job. And bizarre incidents keep happening whenever sheThen comes the day when ordinariness flies out of the window. It's nearby. Abbynot a coincidence that it's investigation leads her to some startling discoveries - and by the time their story reaches its terrifying conclusion, same day she finds Queen Elizabeth I in the fate of Abby pantry and Gretchen will be determined by a single question: Is their friendship enough to beat the devilBard 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]] |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1594748624</amazonuk!-- Rodford -->}}{{newreview|-|authorstyle= Kevin MacNeil"width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|title=The Brilliant and Forever[[image:Rodford_Surgeon.jpg|ratinglink= 3http://www.amazon.co.5|genreuk/dp/178565005X/ref=nosim?tag= Humourthebookbag-21]]  |summarystyle= You know sometimes when someone tells a joke, everyone else laughs, and you're sat there wondering what was so funny?"vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"||amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846973376</amazonuk>}}==[[The Surgeon's Case: George Kocharyan Mystery 2 by E G Rodford]]==={{newreview|author= Christopher Fowler[[image:4star.jpg|titlelink= Bryant and MayCategory: Strange Tide|{{{rating= 3.5}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime|genre= Crime|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 continuing]], [[:Category:Humour|Humour]] In the second instalment of this series, which are likely to confirm that he is suffering from AlzheimerPrivate 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. 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 According to Galbraith, this briefcase contains confidential notes concerning an important patient of his at the hospital. George agrees to look into the Dolphin|rating=5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=Dublin 1916: Among 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 precisedeceit and dysfunction. [[The only glitch is that the main trophy contender, Bernard MacNeillSurgeon'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. They turn to Fitzmaurice, a student not good enough for anything elsejpg|link=http://www. Fitzmaurice agrees, picking his friends Crozier and Rafferty to go with himamazon. So… ''Gentlemen, lace up your strongest boots and pack your warmest underwear – we're all off to the bloody Arctic!'' 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