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[[Category:New Reviews|Humour]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreview|authorclass-"wikitable" cellpadding=S Lynn Scott"15" <!-- INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE--><!-- Hogan -->|title=Elizabeth, William... and Me-|ratingstyle=4"width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1473669065.5jpg|genrelink=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1473669065/ref=Humournosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  |summarystyle=Ally is an ordinary woman with teenage children, a husband and a job. Then comes the day when ordinariness flies out of the window. It"vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Queenie Malone's not a coincidence that it's the same day she finds Queen Elizabeth I in the pantry and the Bard of Avon in her bathParadise Hotel by Ruth Hogan]]=== [[image:5star. What's she going to do? Well, Elizabeth and Will have their own ideas about that!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1788037006</amazonuk>jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}}{{newreviewStar Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|author= E G RodfordGeneral Fiction]], [[:Category:Humour|title= The Surgeon's CaseHumour]], [[:Category: George Kocharyan Mystery 2Paranormal|rating= 4Paranormal]]|genre= Crime |summary=In Tilda returns to Brighton, to tidy away the second instalment remains of this seriesher mother's life after her death. Whilst there, Private Investigator George Kocharyan has been hired by a well-known local man she returns to track down some missing valuables. Bill Galbraiththe Paradise hotel, a world-famous surgeon at Cambridge's Addenbrooke's Hospital who hosts haven for eccentrics and misfits. A place where people can be themselves, and let go of thoughts that torment them elsewhere. Little wonder that Tilda cannot forgive her mother for banishing her as a popular medical television programme, has had his briefcase stolen by his live-in domestic servant, Aurora. According to Galbraithchild, from this briefcase contains confidential notes concerning an important patient place of his at the hospitalwonder. George agrees to look into With the thefthelp of Queenie Malone, caring, assuming it will be a relatively easy and straightforward case – little does he knowgregarious, he's about Tilda begins to enter a world of deceit pick apart the tricky and uncertain relationship she had with her sometimes cruel and dysfunctiondistant mother.[[Queenie Malone's Paradise Hotel by Ruth Hogan|amazonuk=Full Review]] <amazonuk>178565005X</amazonuk!-- van LENTE -->}}{{newreview|-|authorstyle=Toni Jordan"width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1683690346.jpg|titlelink=Our Tiny, Useless Heartshttp://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1683690346/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  |ratingstyle=5"vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"||genre=Women's Fiction|summary=As predicted =[[The Con Artist by Caroline and Janice's mother on Caroline and Henry's wedding dayFred Van Lente]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime|Crime]], their marriage is over[[:Category:Humour|Humour]] Comic-Cons are a place of wonder and sanctuary for many people, albeit 15 years and two daughters further along than predicted. Indeedwhen Comic book artist Mike Mason arrives at San Diego Comic-Con, this is definitely not a good weekend he's looking for Janice to be babysitting at Caroline's house. There's the split both that and sanctuary with other fans and creators, plus the awkwardness chance of the girls' schoolteacher being the other woman for maybe, 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 intrusive fans to zombie obstacle courses – Mike must prove his innocence and, in doing so, may just unravel a dark secret behind a startlegendary industry creator. Then there's that mistaken identity moment involving the neighbours. At least Janice is well adjusted and over her ex[[The Con Artist by Fred Van Lente|Full Review]]  <!-- Coulton -->|-husband Alec. She still dreams of him, yes, but it's so over! Just as well really… guess who's at the door?|amazonukstyle=<amazonuk>1760293814</amazonuk>"width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|}}[[image:1473669588.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1473669588/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]{{newreview|author=Colin Taylor|titlestyle=The Life of a Scilly Sergeant"vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"||rating=4.5==[[Falling Short by Lex Coulton]]===|genre=Travel[[image:4star.jpg|summarylink=Meet the Isles of Scilly. (I know they should be called that – the author provides a handy guide to the etiquette of their nameCategory:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]], their nature and location[[:Category:Humour|Humour]], etc.) For our more distant readers, they[[:Category:Women's Fiction|Women's Fiction]] Lex Coulton're several chunks of granite rock out in the Atlantics debut novel is a story about mistakes, where Cornwall is pointingfailures, and relationships. The main protagonist, Frances Pilgrim, is a sixth form English teacher who has recently fallen out with just 2her best friend Jackson, a work colleague,200 permanent residentsand is grappling with the increasingly eccentric behaviour of her mother. TheyThis relationship is complicated by the fact that Frances're big on tourism, and big on growing flowers in the tropical climate the Gulf Stream bequeaths them – although the weather is bad enough to turn any car to a rust bucket within s father disappeared at sea when she was five yearsold. They're so wee, and so idyllic[[Falling Short by Lex Coulton|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.jpg|link=http://www. But there is – at least two working at any one timeamazon. And one of them in recent years has been Colin Taylor, who has done his official duty – alongside maintaining a wellco.uk/dp/1683690346/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-known online existence, which has brought to life all the whimsical comedy of his work.21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"||amazonuk=<amazonuk>178475515X</amazonuk>==[[The Con Artist by Fred Van Lente]]===}}[[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{newreviewrating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime|author=Josie Lloyd and Emlyn Rees|title='Twas the Fight Before ChristmasCrime]], [[:Category: A ParodyHumour|rating=3.5Humour]]|genre=Humour|summary=ItComic-Cons are a place of wonder and sanctuary for many people, and when Comic book artist Mike Mason arrives at San Diego Comic-Con, he's Christmas Eve looking for both that and sanctuary with other fans and Mum has arranged everythingcreators, plus the chance of maybe, just maybe reuniting with his ex. All she now has However, when his rival is found dead, Mike is forced to do is await the arrival navigate every dark corner of the relatives con in order to clear his name – from cosplay flash mobs and the food shopping delivery. Little does Mum know that those two elements alone have the potential to ruin everythingintrusive 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]] |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472125118</amazonuk!-- Curran -->}}{{newreview|-|authorstyle=Ryan North"width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1683690133.jpg|titlelink=Romeo andhttp://or Juliet|rating=3www.5|genre=Humouramazon.co.uk/dp/1683690133/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  |summarystyle="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===For all those who think tragedy plots are too restricted [[My Lady's Choosing by Kitty Curran and prescribed, read onLarissa Zageris]]=== [[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:Humour|Humour]], she could have turned away from her predestined path at no end [[:Category:Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]] You are a lass of juncturestwenty eight. And to what result? WellPlucky, happy marriage penniless and in Regency era London the race is on to find a kid called Ben, because the leads have just banged peoplesuitable suitor - or else doom yourself to life as an eternal spinster. Along your journey you's heads together and stopped the quarrelling, or Death ll be accompanied by Tybalt (him) or Lady Evangeline Youngblood - a fiesty noble eager to save you from a long life running an establishment curing murderous womenalone, such as and fired by a Lady M (her)rogueish sense for adventure. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0356508536</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Gervase Phinn|title= The Virgin MaryWhen it comes to suitors though, you's Got Nits|rating= 4.5|genre= Humour|summary= Christmas in our house is ll have to make the ultimate decision between witty, pretty and wealthy Sir Benedict Granville, wholesome, rugged and caring Captain Angus MacTaggart, or the time we tend to get on a plane mad, bad and head to either sun or snowterrifyingly sexy Lord Garraway Craven. With orphans, anywhere that is farwerewolves, far away from long lost lovers and ancient Egyptian artifcats along the madness at homeway, last minute dashes it's clear this isn't going to the shops on Christmas Eve, be an easy decision... [[My Lady's Choosing by Kitty Curran 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 partiesLarissa Zageris|Full Review]] <!-- Jester -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Jester_Forever.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co. This book is an anthology of those moments, and it took me right back to the wonder of Christmas as a child.|amazonukuk/gp/product/1510704361?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=<amazonuk>1444779400</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author6738&creativeASIN= Kieran Crowley1510704361]]|title= Shoot|rating= 4|genrestyle= Crime"vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Forever After: a dark comedy by David Jester]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|summarylink= I make something of a habit of being late to discover good writers, in this case getting to Crowley after he Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Paranormal|Paranormal]], [[:Category:Horror|Horror]], [[:Category:Fantasy|Fasntasy]] Michael Holland is no longer with usa cocky and brash young man who dies and gets made the offer of his lifetime; immortality. The result is that what is billed We follow Michael, a grim reaper and his friends Chip (a stoner tooth fairy) and Naff (a stoner in the records department) as ''an F.X. Shepherd mystery'' they grapple with all the optimism of there being more their long lives and finding a clean surface to come has the poignancy of being, if not the last of a short line, certainly one of a fewsit on in their flat. F.X. Shepherd – he doesn't like his first name and prefers just "Shepherd" is, technically, [[Forever After: a columnist. He's been sacked 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]] <!--washedStibbe -foul-mouthed editor (read the book, you'll see what I mean) expects him to turn in some genuine journalism as well: front page, seat of your pants stuff. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783296518</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Gray Jolliffe-|titlestyle=The First Ever Christmas"width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: And Who to Blamecenter;"|[[image:Stibbe_Xmas.jpg|ratingleft|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0241309824?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=50241309824]] |genre=Humour|summarystyle=If I tell you a secret, will you promise not to tell anyone? Well, I really don't like "vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[An Almost Perfect Christmasby Nina Stibbe]]=== [[image: it's my least favourite 4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Humour|Humour]], [[:Category:Short Stories|Short Stories]] Christmas – the time of year and whilst some people count down traditional trauma. You only have to think about the turkey for that – once upon a time it was leaving it sat on the day itselfdownstairs loo to defrost overnight, I look forward to that point when I can say and if that failed the hair-dryer shoved inside it's all over for another yeartreatment was your next best bet. ItNowadays it's all having to make sure it's suitably free-range and organic – but not too commercialised for meorganic 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 s cash in hand for a lot of plump people who can hire red suits and beards, it in was always a godsend for postmen with all the least funny 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 Christmas: And Who's to Blame''. Amazingly, I'd never encountered Gray Jolliffe either, but I'm a convert to his skills as a cartoonist (if not to and as for the idea makers of Christmas) after reading this collection Meltis Newberry Fruits – well, did they even try and sell them any other time of the year? [[An Almost Perfect Christmas-themed cartoons from his archive.by Nina Stibbe|Full Review]] |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445663503</amazonuk!-- Doescher -->}}{{newreview|author=Jonathan Pugh-|titlestyle=Pugh's New Year's Resolutions"width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Doescher_Will.jpg|ratingleft|link=4https://www.amazon.co.5uk/gp/product/159474985X?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=159474985X]] |genre=Humour|summarystyle=If there"vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[William Shakespeare's one thing that's for certain, it's that the world is changingForce Doth Awaken: Star Wars Part the Seventh by Ian Doescher]]=== [[image:4.5star. We're dating onlinejpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Science Fiction|Science Fiction]], [[: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-before droids anew, returning heroes from elsewhere in his oeuvre, and people keeping it in the family til it hurts.5|genre= Humour |summary=Super-intelligent furry aliens suddenly appear from another universe. And they And if 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, part seven – surely making this over twice as well as a ranking high on the FBI'good… [[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. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785651757</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewSeventh by Ian Doescher|Full Review]] <!-- Goss -->|author=Rod Green-|titlestyle=Only Fools and Horses"width: 10%; vertical-align: The Peckham Archives|rating=4top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Goss_600.jpg|genreleft|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1785942719?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=Entertainment as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1785942719]]  |summarystyle=We are in the world "vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Doctor Who: Now We Are Six Hundred: A Collection of one of the country's most famous Time Lord Verse (Dr Who) by James Goss and well-loved sitcoms – even if it was sort-of killed off for Christmas 2003Russell T Davies]]=== [[image:4.5star. Yesjpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Children's Rhymes and Verse|Children's Rhymes and Verse]], there have been specials since[[:Category:Science Fiction|Science Fiction]], and more repeats to clog up [[:Category:Humour|Humour]] Consider the BBC schedules than is really pukkaDoctor. Just how many birthday and Christmas gifts must he have to hand out each year, but very few people failed were he to succumb to its charms at one time or another. I'm sure there have been keep in touch with even half of his companions? He would certainly need a few novelty gifts for some of them, say, for example, whimsical books before now celebrating the stony-faced reception of ''verse that'' drop through pithily encapsulate the open bar hatch, life of a Time Lord and ''that'' chandelier sceneof some of his friends and enemies. As luck would have it, but this is much more meaty. Purporting he has the space in his TARDIS to be the family archives, found dumped stock up in Nelson Mandela Houseadvance, the documents here were passed from pillar so my advice to posthim – sorry, from one council worker in her – would be to pop along to his local Earth-based book emporium and get himself ready. And if you're working on a department shorter timescale, with a clumsy acronym to anothershorter lifespan, from them to the police – and now here they are being published for their social history worththinking perhaps just one gift season ahead, well my advice is pretty much the same. Will enough readers find them [[Doctor Who: Now We Are Six Hundred: A Collection of worth, as the series quietly celebrates its 35th birthday?Time Lord Verse (Dr Who) by James Goss and Russell T Davies|Full Review]] |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849909245</amazonuk!-- Ingram -->}}{{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:Ingram_Kammie.jpg|genre= Autobiographyleft|summarylink= Mara Wilson has always felt a little young and a little out of placehttps://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1785451995?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1785451995]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: as the only child on a film set full of adultsleft;"|===[[Conversations with Kammie by Annie Ingram]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Pets|Pets]], the first daughter in a house full of boys, the sole clinically depressed member [[:Category:Humour|Humour]] It was something of a cheerleading squadrelief when I encountered Annie Ingram and her cocker spaniel Kammie. You see, Annie knows something which has been self-evident to me for a valley girl in New York long time: dogs are perfectly capable of communicating with humans and not just on a neurotic in California, and an adult the world still remembers as a little girl. Tackling everything from how she first learned about sex on the set level of ''Melrose Placefood!,'' walk! or play!. You do require extensive training to losing her mother at a young age, to getting her first kiss (or was it kisses?) on a celebrity canoe tripbecome fluent, but most dogs will be perfectly willing to not being cute enough give their time to make it in Hollywood, these essays tell the story of one young woman's journey from accidental fame teach you and all you have to relative obscurity, but also illuminate a universal struggledo is listen. Annie has studied hard: learning Kammie has trained her well and the pair have allowed us to accept yourself, and figuring out who you are and where you belongshare some of their conversations. [[Conversations with Kammie by Annie Ingram|Full Review]] |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0143128221</amazonuk!-- Harris -->}}{{newreview|-|authorstyle= Tony Stuart"width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|title= Writing Lines[[image:Harris_Glass.jpg|ratinglink= 4http://www.amazon.co.5uk/dp/1908943823/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  |genrestyle=Humour"vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The Breaking of Liam Glass by Charles Harris]]=== [[image:3star.jpg|summarylink= George Gordon Wentworth (1946-2011) lived a humdrum life. He was a barely adequate teacher in a fairly world renowned independent school in Kent Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime|Crime]], [[:Category:Humour|Humour]] Teenager Liam Glass is mugged and kept a copious diary of stabbed yards from his quotidian existenceCamden flat. Most of what he recorded was dross. HoweverAs the boy lies comatose, amongst all desperate journalist Jason Worthington scrabbles for the utterly uninteresting tailings of his life there were some nuggets inside scoop, tired police officer Andy Rockham searches for a missing tape, harried politician Jamila Hasan fights for re-election, distraught mother Katrina Glass waits by her son, and grains to catch gym-owner Royland simply finds himself in the wrong place at the attentionwrong time. Author Tony Stuart has created these amusing anecdotesWe follow this host of ensemble characters in a bleak, panning them out over twenty six episodes which give us the best kaleidoscopic satire of modern media. [[The Breaking of Wentworth – comedy goldLiam Glass by Charles Harris|Full Review]] <!-- LENTE -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Lente_10. From losing all the pupils in his charge on a school trip to being arrested on suspicion of terrorismjpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1683690222/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left; from waking up in bed between the married couple the morning after their wedding, to destroying a ski run; from appearing full-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."||amazonuk=<amazonuk>1524634441</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Graham Fulbright|title=Driving Mad: Maniacs, Morons and the Advanced Motorist's Club|rating[[Ten Dead Comedians: A Murder Mystery by Fred Van Lente]]===3.5|genre=Humour[[image:4star.jpg|summarylink=I passed my driving test when John F Kennedy was in the White House and I've recently had Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Humour|Humour]] Nine comedians are invited to reapply for my driving licence having achieved a venerable age. When I started driving remote Caribbean island under the roads were kinderguise of working with Dustin Walker, more forgiving places - or put another waya comedic legend. Each fits neatly into one of the archetypal comic stereotypes: Steve, the idiots were fewer and further between. I don't know how long Graham Fulbright washed-up has -been drivingwho has fallen far from his early days; Zoe, but he certainly knows his motoring morons and 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 ''Driving Mad'' he brings us a fictional sample of their eccentricities. Wellthe business; Oliver, Ithe child-like prop comic who can'm pretty certain that they're fictional 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- but these days you never know..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.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783062584</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Mario Giordano|title=Auntie Poldi Of course, all nine agree because ''when God almighty walks down on a beam of light and asks for your help, what the Sicilian Lionshell else are you going to say?'' [[Ten Dead Comedians: A Murder Mystery by Fred Van Lente|rating=4Full Review]]|genre=Crime|summary=Poldi had not long been widowed when she decided to move from Bavaria to Sicily with the intention of drinking herself to death<!-- Scott -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Scott_Eliz.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1788037006/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Elizabeth, William.. She could, of course, have done this in Germany, but she felt that a sea view was essential. Once there, new friends, family already resident on the island and the corpse of a young man, his face blown off Me by a shotgun, whom she found on the local beach, intervened to give her life some meaningS Lynn Scott]]=== [[image:4. For a while she was a suspect, but that (and her wig) were no obstacle to her falling for Commissario Vito Montana who was assigned to investigate the case5star. Assisting him (or having him assist her) came naturally to Poldi and before long there was an investigative and personal partnership. At least so far as Poldi was concerned.|amazonukjpg|link=<amazonuk>1908524693</amazonuk>}}Category:{{{newreviewrating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Humour|author= Grady HendrixHumour]]|title= My Best Friend's Exorcism|rating= 5|genre= Horror|summary=1988Ally is an ordinary woman with teenage children, Charleston, South Carolinaa husband and a job. High school sophomores Abby and Gretchen have been best friends since fourth grade. But after an evening Then comes the day when ordinariness flies out of skinny-dipping goes disatrously wrong, Gretchen begins to actthe 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 conclusion, the fate of Abby own ideas about that! [[Elizabeth, 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|-|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.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 to confirm that he is suffering from Alzheimer'sPrivate Investigator George Kocharyan has been hired by a well-known local man to track down some missing valuables. His condition is worsening almost by the dayBill Galbraith, memory lapses are morphing into fulla world-scale hallucinations.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857523422</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Kevin Smith|title=The Voyage of the Dolphin|rating=5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=Dublin 1916: Among the unrest and antifamous surgeon at Cambridge's Addenbrooke's Hospital who hosts a popular medical television programme, has had his briefcase stolen by his live-British feeling worsened by the threat of conscription into a war seen as nothing to do with the Irishin domestic servant, Trinity College faculty has other distractionsAurora. They'd like a trophy; According to Galbraith, this briefcase contains confidential notes concerning an important patient of his at the skeleton of an Irish 'giant' hospital. George agrees to be precise. The only glitch is that look into the main trophy contendertheft, Bernard MacNeill'assuming it will be a relatively easy and straightforward case – little does he know, he's skeleton, is somewhere difficult about to access enter a world of deceit and all seasoned explorers are otherwise engaged. There may be hope though. They turn to Fitzmaurice, a student not good enough for anything else. Fitzmaurice agrees, picking his friends Crozier and Rafferty to go with him. So… ''Gentlemen, lace up your strongest boots and pack your warmest underwear – we're all off to the bloody Arctic!'' Whether battle cry or epitaph, three men and a dog… and an iguana… are going anywaydysfunction.[[The Surgeon's Case: George Kocharyan Mystery 2 by E G Rodford|Full Review]] <!-- Jordan -->|-|amazonukstyle=<amazonuk>1910124826</amazonuk>"width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Jordan_Tiny.jpg|amazonuslink=<amazonus>1910124826<http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1760293814/amazonus>ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]}}{{newreview|authorstyle="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Our Tiny, Useless Hearts by Toni Jordan]]=Tony Hawks|title=Once Upon a Time in the West… Country|rating=3|genre=Travel[[image:5star.jpg|summarylink=I have often complained in a jokey voice to my partner about life in the sticksCategory:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Women's Fiction|Women's Fiction]], [[:Category:Humour|Humour]] As predicted by Caroline and the way she moved me from an inner-city flat to slumming it in the suburbs with fewer bussesJanice's mother on Caroline and Henry's wedding day, no takeaways within walking-and-keeping-food-hot distancetheir marriage is over, albeit 15 years and no 'Polish' shops for a can of beer whenever you fancy onetwo daughters further along than predicted. Things are different with Tony HawksIndeed, as here he has purposefully decided this is definitely not a good weekend for Janice to up sticks from London to Somewhere, Devon – a tiny village where be babysitting at Caroline's house. There's the split and the people who built their own homes decades ago still live in them, where slugs are a lot more awkwardness of a problem for the wannabe lettuce-grower than they are for girls' schoolteacher being the metropolitan commuter, and where village halls have the power to turn you into both other woman for a Pol Pot dictator if you get on their committee and into a quivering, bruise-inducing wreck if youstart. Then there're s that mistaken identity moment involving the wrong gender at a Zumba class…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444794809</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Marian Keyes|title=Making It Up As I Go Along|rating=4.5|genre=Entertainment|summary=Oh, how the book reviewing gods like to give, and equally like to take away. 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I 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 istag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The Life of a Scilly Sergeant by Colin Taylor]]=== [[image:4. So much like that test you do – you know the one5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Travel|Travel]], [[:Category:Humour|Humour]] Meet the Isles of Scilly. 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I used to love Asterix as a childThey're big on tourism, but now that I reread them I canand big on growing flowers in the tropical climate the Gulf Stream bequeaths them – although the weather is bad enough to turn any car to a rust bucket within years. They't help but wonder why, because they are re so full of hilarious jokes that I definitely wouldn't have understood when I was younger. I laughed loud wee, and hard to myself twice within the first two pages of Asterix and the Missing Scrollso idyllic-seeming, especially at night, so I'd definitely say that this was you can be mistaken for thinking there would be no need for a hitpolice presence. 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Their marriage is going through the motions, jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Humour|Humour]] It's Christmas Eve and they're staying together for the sake of their troubled teenage sonMum has arranged everything. Following a business conference away from home, one bad decision sends a happy couple into turmoil, All she now has to do is await the arrival of the relatives and turns an unhappy couple into love's young dreamthe food shopping delivery. As secrets and betrayals threaten to send both relationships out of control, there's only one thing Little does Mum know that can keep those two elements alone have the potential to ruin everything from falling apart. 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Smee will come [[:Category:Anthologies|Anthologies]] Christmas in our house is the time we tend to the fore when the weather sets in get on a plane and the train journey has head to be abandoned some way short of its ultimate destinationeither sun or snow, Upper Bottom. Instead anywhere that is far, far away from the pair fetch up madness at home, last minute dashes to the isolated yet friendly community of Market Hortonshops on Christmas Eve, and the only option food cupboard stockpiles that would imply supermarkets are shutting for accommodation is taken – yesa month, the died-in-the-wool non-believer has to be housed by nor a retired vicar and his wifemere 36 hours. 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