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[[Category:New Reviews|Humour]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreview|authorclass-"wikitable" cellpadding= Charles Harris"15" <!-- INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE-->|title= The Breaking of Liam Glass<!-- Hogan -->|rating= 3-|genrestyle=Crime"width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1473669065.jpg|summarylink= A flawed but reasonably entertaining swipe at modern mediahttp://www. There's plenty here to like, and plenty not toamazon. But good structure and scramjet pace keep this one flying to the final pageco.|amazonukuk/dp/1473669065/ref=nosim?tag=<amazonuk>1908943823</amazonuk>thebookbag-21]]}}{{newreview|authorstyle= Fred Van Lente|title= Ten Dead Comedians"vertical-align: top; text-align: A Murder Mysteryleft;"|rating= 4|genre= Humour==[[Queenie Malone's Paradise Hotel by Ruth Hogan]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|summarylink= Nine comedians are invited to a remote Caribbean island under the guise of working with Dustin WalkerCategory:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]], [[:Category:Humour|Humour]], a comedic legend. Each fits neatly into one of the archetypal comic stereotypes[[:Category: SteveParanormal|Paranormal]] Tilda returns to Brighton, to tidy away the washed-up has-been who has fallen far from his early days; Zoeremains of her mother's life after her death. Whilst there, she returns to the rising female star with a new stand-up special coming soon; DanteParadise hotel, who went from being a kid on 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 child, from this place of wonder. With the streets help of Queenie Malone, caring, and gregarious, Tilda begins to pick apart the hardest working road comic in the business; Oliver, the childtricky and uncertain relationship she had with her sometimes cruel and distant mother. [[Queenie Malone's Paradise Hotel by Ruth Hogan|Full Review]] <!-- van LENTE -like prop comic who can't get any respect from his peers->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; Janet, the insult comic who is past her primetext-align: center; TJ, the nightly variety show host with a reputation for harassing his female colleagues and guest acts"|[[image:1683690346.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1683690346/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; Ruby, the ultratext-feminist YouTuber and Blogger with a chip on her shoulderalign: left; and William, whose redneck character ''Billy the Contractor'' is a far cry from his real personality as a posh millionaire"|===[[The Con Artist by Fred Van Lente]]=== [[image:4star. Of coursejpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime|Crime]], all nine agree because ''when God almighty walks down on [[:Category:Humour|Humour]] Comic-Cons are a beam place of light wonder and asks sanctuary for your helpmany people, and when Comic book artist Mike Mason arrives at San Diego Comic-Con, what the hell else are you going to say?he''|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1594749744</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=S Lynn Scott|title=Elizabeths looking for both that and sanctuary with other fans and creators, plus the chance of maybe, Williamjust maybe reuniting with his ex... and Me|rating=4.5|genre=Humour|summary=Ally However, when his rival is an ordinary woman with teenage childrenfound dead, a husband and a job. Then comes Mike is forced to navigate every dark corner of the day when ordinariness flies out of the windowcon 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. It's not a coincidence that it's the same day she finds Queen Elizabeth I in the pantry and the Bard of Avon in her bath[[The Con Artist by Fred Van Lente|Full Review]]  <!-- Coulton -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1473669588. What's she going to do? Well, Elizabeth and Will have their own ideas about that!jpg|amazonuklink=<amazonuk>1788037006<http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1473669588/amazonuk>ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]}}{{newreview|authorstyle= E G Rodford"vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"||title= The Surgeon's Case: George Kocharyan Mystery 2==[[Falling Short by Lex Coulton]]===|rating= 4[[image:4star.jpg|genrelink= Crime Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|summary=In the second instalment of this seriesGeneral Fiction]], Private Investigator George Kocharyan has been hired by a well-known local man to track down some missing valuables. Bill Galbraith[[:Category:Humour|Humour]], a world-famous surgeon at Cambridge[[:Category:Women's AddenbrookeFiction|Women's Hospital who hosts Fiction]] Lex Coulton's debut novel is a popular medical television programmestory about mistakes, has had his briefcase stolen by his live-in domestic servantfailures, Auroraand relationships. According to GalbraithThe main protagonist, Frances Pilgrim, this briefcase contains confidential notes concerning an important patient is a sixth form English teacher who has recently fallen out with her best friend Jackson, a work colleague, and is grappling with the increasingly eccentric behaviour of his at the hospitalher mother. George agrees to look into This relationship is complicated by the theft, assuming it will be a relatively easy and straightforward case – little does he know, hefact that Frances's about to enter a world of deceit and dysfunctionfather disappeared at sea when she was five years old.[[Falling Short by Lex Coulton|Full Review]] |amazonuk=<amazonuk!-- van LENTE -->178565005X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Toni Jordan-|titlestyle=Our Tiny, Useless Hearts"width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|rating=5[[image:1683690346.jpg|genrelink=Women's Fictionhttp://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1683690346/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  |summarystyle=As predicted "vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[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, albeit 15 years and two daughters further along than predicted. Indeed, this is definitely not [[:Category:Humour|Humour]] Comic-Cons are a good weekend place of wonder and sanctuary for Janice to be babysitting many people, and when Comic book artist Mike Mason arrives at CarolineSan Diego Comic-Con, he's house. There's the split looking for both that and sanctuary with other fans and creators, plus the awkwardness chance of the girls' schoolteacher being the other woman for a startmaybe, just maybe reuniting with his ex. Then there's that mistaken identity moment involving However, when his rival is found dead, Mike is forced to navigate every dark corner of the neighbours. At least Janice is well adjusted con in order to clear his name – from cosplay flash mobs and intrusive fans to zombie obstacle courses – Mike must prove his innocence and over her ex-husband Alec, in doing so, may just unravel a dark secret behind a legendary industry creator. She still dreams of him, yes, but it's so over[[The Con Artist by Fred Van Lente|Full Review]] <! Just as well really… guess who's at the door?-- Curran -->|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1760293814</amazonuk>}}{{newreview-|authorstyle=Colin Taylor"width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1683690133.jpg|titlelink=The Life of a Scilly Sergeanthttp://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1683690133/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  |ratingstyle=4.5"vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"||genre=Travel|summary=Meet the Isles of Scilly=[[My Lady's Choosing by Kitty Curran and Larissa Zageris]]=== [[image:4star. (I know they should be called that – the author provides a handy guide to the etiquette jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Humour|Humour]], [[:Category:Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]] You are a lass of their nametwenty eight. Plucky, their nature penniless and location, etc.) For our more distant readers, theyin Regency era London the race is on to find a suitable suitor - or else doom yourself to life as an eternal spinster. Along your journey you're several chunks of granite rock out in the Atlanticll be accompanied by Lady Evangeline Youngblood - a fiesty noble eager to save you from a life alone, where Cornwall is pointingand fired by a rogueish sense for adventure. When it comes to suitors though, with just 2,200 permanent residents. Theyyou're big on tourismll have to make the ultimate decision between witty, pretty and big on growing flowers in wealthy Sir Benedict Granville, wholesome, rugged and caring Captain Angus MacTaggart, or the tropical climate the Gulf Stream bequeaths them – although the weather is mad, bad enough to turn any car to a rust bucket within yearsand terrifyingly sexy Lord Garraway Craven. They're so weeWith orphans, werewolves, long lost lovers and so idyllic-seemingancient Egyptian artifcats along the way, especially at night, you can it's clear this isn't going to be mistaken for thinking there would be no need for a police presencean easy decision... But there is – at least two working at any one time. And one of them in recent years has been Colin Taylor, who has done his official duty – alongside maintaining a well[[My Lady's Choosing by Kitty Curran and Larissa Zageris|Full Review]] <!-- Jester -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-known online existence, which has brought to life all the whimsical comedy of his work.align: center;"|[[image:Jester_Forever.jpg|left|amazonuklink=<amazonuk>178475515X<https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/amazonuk>1510704361?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1510704361]]}}{{newreview|authorstyle=Josie Lloyd and Emlyn Rees"vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"||title='Twas the Fight Before Christmas==[[Forever After: A Parody|ratinga dark comedy by David Jester]]===3.5|genre=Humour[[image:4star.jpg|summarylink=It's Christmas Eve Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Paranormal|Paranormal]], [[:Category:Horror|Horror]], [[:Category:Fantasy|Fasntasy]] Michael Holland is a cocky and brash young man who dies and Mum has arranged everything. All she now has to do is await gets made the arrival offer of his lifetime; immortality. We follow Michael, a grim reaper and his friends Chip (a stoner tooth fairy) and Naff (a stoner in the relatives records department) as they grapple with their long lives and the food shopping delivery. Little does Mum know that those two elements alone have the potential to ruin everythingfinding a clean surface to sit on in their flat.[[Forever After: a dark comedy by David Jester|Full Review]] |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472125118</amazonuk!-- Stibbe -->}}{{newreview|author=Ryan North-|titlestyle=Romeo and/or Juliet"width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Stibbe_Xmas.jpg|ratingleft|link=3https://www.amazon.co.5uk/gp/product/0241309824?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=0241309824]] |genre=Humour|summarystyle=For all those who think tragedy plots are too restricted and prescribed, read on"vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[An Almost Perfect Christmas by Nina Stibbe]]=== [[image:4. In these pages you too will see that Romeo had lots of options en route to hitting the bottle5star. Likewisejpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Humour|Humour]], she could have turned away from her predestined path at no end [[:Category:Short Stories|Short Stories]] Christmas – the time of juncturestraditional trauma. And You only have to what result? Wellthink about the turkey for that – once upon a time it was leaving it sat on the downstairs loo to defrost overnight, happy marriage and a kid called Ben, because if that failed the leads have just banged peoplehair-dryer shoved inside it treatment was your next best bet. Nowadays it's heads together and stopped the quarrelling, or Death by Tybalt (him) or a long life running an establishment curing murderous womenall having to make sure it's suitably free-range and organic – but not too organic that you can go and visit it, such as a Lady M (her)and get too friendly with it to want to eat it. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0356508536</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Gervase Phinn|title= The Virgin MaryChristmas, though, is of course also a time of great boons. It's Got Nits|rating= 4.5|genre= Humour|summary= Christmas in our house is the time we tend to get on cash in hand for a plane lot of plump people who can hire red suits and head to either sun or snowbeards, anywhere it was always a godsend for postmen with all the thank-you letters to aunties you saw twice a decade that is faryour parents made you write out in long-hand as a child, far away from and as for the madness at home, last minute dashes to the shops on Christmas Evemakers of Meltis Newberry Fruits – well, did they even try and food cupboard stockpiles that would imply supermarkets are shutting for a month, nor a mere 36 hours. But I do remember sell them any other time of the feeling of year? [[An Almost Perfect 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 partiesby Nina Stibbe|Full Review]] <!-- Doescher -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Doescher_Will.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/159474985X?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=<amazonuk>1444779400</amazonuk>}}159474985X]]{{newreview|author= Kieran Crowley|titlestyle= Shoot"vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"||rating= 4==[[William Shakespeare's the Force Doth Awaken: Star Wars Part the Seventh by Ian Doescher]]===|genre= Crime[[image:4.5star.jpg|summarylink= I make something of a habit of being late to discover good writersCategory:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Science Fiction|Science Fiction]], [[:Category:Humour|Humour]] A long time ago, in this case getting a galaxy far away, there was a man called William Shakespeare, who was able to Crowley after he is no longer with uscreate a series of dramatic histories full of machinations most foul, rulers most evil and rebellious heroes and heroines most sturdy. The result is that what is billed as You may or may not have noticed the cinematic version of his original stage play for ''an F.X. Shepherd mysteryThe Force Doth Awaken'' with all the optimism of there being more , but here at last we get the actual script, complete with annoying-in-different-ways-to come has the poignancy of being-before droids anew, returning heroes from elsewhere in his oeuvre, if not and people keeping it in the last of a short line, certainly one of a fewfamily til it hurts. F.X. Shepherd – he doesnAnd if you need further encouragement, don't like forget his first name and prefers just "Shepherd" audience only demanded three parts of Henry VI – here the series is, technically, a columnist. Heso popular we's been sacked 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 re on to part seven – surely making this over twice as a rule…which explains why Shepherdgood… [[William Shakespeare's soap-washed-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. Force Doth Awaken: Star Wars Part the Seventh by Ian Doescher|Full Review]] |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783296518</amazonuk!-- Goss -->}}{{newreview|-|authorstyle=Gray Jolliffe"width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Goss_600.jpg|titleleft|link=The First Ever Christmashttps: And Who to Blame//www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1785942719?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1785942719]] |rating=5|genrestyle=Humour"vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"||summary=If I tell you a secret, will you promise not to tell anyone? Well, I really don't like Christmas==[[Doctor Who: Now We Are Six Hundred: itA Collection of Time Lord Verse (Dr Who) by James Goss and Russell T Davies]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Children's Rhymes and Verse|Children's my least favourite time of year Rhymes and whilst some people count down to the day itselfVerse]], I look forward [[:Category:Science Fiction|Science Fiction]], [[:Category:Humour|Humour]] Consider the Doctor. Just how many birthday and Christmas gifts must he have to that point when I can say that it's all over for another hand out each year. It's all too commercialised for me, , were he to keep in touch with even half of his companions? He would certainly need a coating few novelty gifts for some of faux religion. I've never found it in the least funny - that isthem, say, for example, until I found Gray Jolliffe's ''The First Ever Christmas: And Who's to Blame''whimsical books of verse that pithily encapsulate the life of a Time Lord and that of some of his friends and enemies. AmazinglyAs luck would have it, I'd never encountered Gray Jolliffe eitherhe has the space in his TARDIS to stock up in advance, so my advice to him – sorry, but I'm a convert her – would be to pop along to his skills as a cartoonist (local Earth-based book emporium and get himself ready. And if not to you're working on a shorter timescale, with a shorter lifespan, and thinking perhaps just one gift season ahead, well my advice is pretty much the idea same. [[Doctor Who: Now We Are Six Hundred: A Collection of ChristmasTime Lord Verse (Dr Who) after reading this collection of Christmas-themed cartoons from his archive.by James Goss and Russell T Davies|Full Review]] |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445663503</amazonuk!-- Ingram -->}}{{newreview|-|authorstyle=Jonathan Pugh"width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Ingram_Kammie.jpg|title=Pugh's New Year's Resolutionsleft|ratinglink=4https://www.amazon.co.5uk/gp/product/1785451995?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1785451995]]  |genrestyle=Humour"vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Conversations with Kammie by Annie Ingram]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|summarylink=If there's one thing that's for certainCategory:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Pets|Pets]], it's that the world is changing. We're dating online, we're communicating in ways that make email seem redundant, and [[:Category:Humour|Humour]] It was something of a relief when we're shopping we just tell a website where I encountered Annie Ingram and when it can be deliveredher cocker spaniel Kammie. You see, and how much leeway they have Annie knows something which has been self-evident to swap our wishes me for whatever it is they do bring us. But those changes a long time: dogs are also supposed to be affecting us – we're supposed to use perfectly capable of communicating with humans and not just on a smart watch to tell us if we're moving level of food!, walk! or not, we have play!. You do require extensive training to keep up with the latest fadsbecome fluent, and we're supposed but most dogs will be perfectly willing to prick our ears up and take note when the proverbial 'they' change give their minds about what we're supposed time to eatteach you and all you have to do is listen. Annie has studied hard: Kammie has trained her well and the pair have allowed us to share some of their conversations.[[Conversations with Kammie by Annie Ingram|Full Review]] |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780722885</amazonuk!-- Harris -->}}{{newreview|-|authorstyle= Luke Rhinehart"width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|title= Invasion[[image:Harris_Glass.jpg|ratinglink= 4http://www.amazon.co.5uk/dp/1908943823/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] |genre= Humour |summarystyle=Super"vertical-intelligent furry aliens suddenly appear from another universealign: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The Breaking of Liam Glass by Charles Harris]]=== [[image:3star. And they've come to earth to have fun. Alien Louie follows fisherman Billy Morton home one dayjpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime|Crime]], [[:Category:Humour|Humour]] Teenager Liam Glass is mugged and he and stabbed yards from his family quickly come to love Camden flat. As the playful alien. But when Louie starts using their computer to hack into government and corporate networksboy lies comatose, stealing millions from banks to give to othersdesperate journalist Jason Worthington scrabbles for the inside scoop, they realise that Louie and his friends mean trouble. As Billy and his family begin tired police officer Andy Rockham searches for a roller coaster ride of fame and fortunemissing tape, as well as a ranking high on the FBI's most wanted listharried politician Jamila Hasan fights for re-election, the Government soon decides that these aliens are terroristsdistraught mother Katrina Glass waits by her son, and must be eliminated. Whilst gym-owner Royland simply finds himself in the aliens are playing games they hope will help humans to see wrong place at the insanity wrong time. We follow this host of the American politicalensemble characters in a bleak, economic and military systems, they soon come to realise that the Powers that Be don't play games: they make war. kaleidoscopic satire of modern media. [[The Breaking of Liam Glass by Charles Harris|amazonuk=Full Review]] <amazonuk!-- LENTE -->1785651757</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Rod Green-|titlestyle=Only Fools and Horses"width: 10%; vertical-align: The Peckham Archives|rating=4top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Lente_10.jpg|genrelink=Entertainment http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1683690222/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  |summarystyle=We are in the world of one of the country's most famous and well"vertical-loved sitcoms – even if it was sortalign: top; text-of killed off for Christmas 2003align: left;"|===[[Ten Dead Comedians: A Murder Mystery by Fred Van Lente]]=== [[image:4star. Yes, there have been specials since, and more repeats jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Humour|Humour]] Nine comedians are invited to clog up a remote Caribbean island under the BBC schedules than is really pukkaguise of working with Dustin Walker, but very few people failed to succumb to its charms at a comedic legend. Each fits neatly into one time or another. I'm sure there have been books before now celebrating the stony-faced reception of ''that'' drop through the open bar hatcharchetypal comic stereotypes: Steve, and ''that'' chandelier scenethe washed-up has-been who has fallen far from his early days; Zoe, but this is much more meaty. Purporting to be the family archives, found dumped in Nelson Mandela House, the documents here were passed from pillar to postrising female star with a new stand-up special coming soon; Dante, who went from one council worker in being a department with a clumsy acronym kid on the streets to anotherthe hardest working road comic in the business; Oliver, from them to the police – and now here they are being published for their social history worth. child-like prop comic who can't get any respect from his peers; Janet, the insult comic who is past her prime; Will enough readers find them of worthTJ, as the series quietly celebrates its 35th birthday?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849909245</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Mara Wilson|title= Where Am I Now?: True Stories of Girlhood nightly variety show host with a reputation for harassing his female colleagues and guest acts; Ruby, the ultra-feminist YouTuber and Accidental Fame|rating= 5|genre= Autobiography|summary= Mara Wilson has always felt Blogger with a little young chip on her shoulder; and a little out of place: as William, whose redneck character ''Billy the only child on Contractor'' is a film set full of adults, the first daughter in far cry from his real personality as a house full of boys, the sole clinically depressed member of a cheerleading squadposh millionaire. Of course, all nine agree because ''when God almighty walks down on a valley girl in New York beam of light and a neurotic in Californiaasks for your help, and an adult what the world still remembers as a little girl. Tackling everything from how she first learned about sex on the set of ''Melrose Place,'' to losing her mother at a young age, to getting her first kiss (or was it kisseshell else are you going to say?'' [[Ten Dead Comedians: A Murder Mystery by Fred Van Lente|Full Review]] <!-- Scott -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Scott_Eliz.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1788037006/ref=nosim?) on a celebrity canoe triptag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Elizabeth, 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 struggleWilliam... and Me by S Lynn Scott]]=== [[image: learning to accept yourself, and figuring out who you are and where you belong4.5star. jpg|amazonuklink=<amazonuk>0143128221</amazonuk>Category:{{{rating}}}{{newreviewStar Reviews]] [[:Category:Humour|author= Tony StuartHumour]]|title= Writing Lines|rating= 4Ally is an ordinary woman with teenage children, a husband and a job.5|genre=Humour|summary= George Gordon Wentworth (1946-2011) lived a humdrum lifeThen comes the day when ordinariness flies out of the window. He was It's not a barely adequate teacher coincidence that it's the same day she finds Queen Elizabeth I in a fairly world renowned independent school in Kent the pantry and kept a copious diary the Bard of his quotidian existenceAvon in her bath. Most of what he recorded was dross. HoweverWhat's she going to do? Well, amongst all the utterly uninteresting tailings of his life there were some nuggets Elizabeth and grains to catch the attention. Author Tony Stuart has created these amusing anecdotesWill have their own ideas about that! [[Elizabeth, panning them out over twenty six episodes which give us the best of Wentworth – comedy goldWilliam... From losing all the pupils in his charge on a school trip to being arrested on suspicion of terrorism; from waking up in bed between the married couple the morning after their wedding, to destroying a ski run; from appearing fulland Me by S Lynn Scott|Full Review]] <!-- Rodford -frontal naked in a sheep-farmers' gazette to triggering an air>|-sea rescue| style="width: 10%; Wentworth was, blinkered and befuddled, the subject – of these and so many more unlikely but highly amusing eventsvertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Rodford_Surgeon.jpg|amazonuklink=<amazonuk>1524634441<http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/178565005X/amazonuk>ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]}}{{newreview|authorstyle=Graham Fulbright"vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"||title=Driving Mad: Maniacs, Morons and the Advanced Motorist==[[The Surgeon's ClubCase: George Kocharyan Mystery 2 by E G Rodford]]===|rating=3[[image:4star.5jpg|genrelink=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime|Crime]], [[:Category:Humour|Humour]]|summary=I passed my driving test when John F Kennedy was in In the White House and I've recently had to reapply for my driving licence having achieved second instalment of this series, Private Investigator George Kocharyan has been hired by a venerable agewell-known local man to track down some missing valuables. When I started driving the roads were kinderBill Galbraith, more forgiving places a world- or put another way, the idiots were fewer and further between. I donfamous surgeon at Cambridge's Addenbrooke't know how long Graham Fulbright s Hospital who hosts a popular medical television programme, has been driving, but he certainly knows had his briefcase stolen by his motoring morons and live-in ''Driving Mad'' he brings us a fictional sample domestic servant, Aurora. According to Galbraith, this briefcase contains confidential notes concerning an important patient of their eccentricitieshis at the hospital. WellGeorge agrees to look into the theft, I'm pretty certain that they're fictional - but these days you never assuming it will be a relatively easy and straightforward case – little does he know, he's about to enter a world of deceit and dysfunction...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783062584</amazonuk>}}{{newreview[[The Surgeon's Case: George Kocharyan Mystery 2 by E G Rodford|author=Mario GiordanoFull Review]]|title=Auntie Poldi and the Sicilian Lions|rating=4<!-- Jordan -->|genre=Crime-|summarystyle=Poldi had not long been widowed when she decided to move from Bavaria to Sicily with the intention of drinking herself to death"width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Jordan_Tiny.jpg|link=http://www.amazon. She could, of course, have done this in Germany, but she felt that a sea view was essentialco. Once there, new friends, family already resident on the island and the corpse of a young manuk/dp/1760293814/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Our Tiny, his face blown off Useless Hearts by a shotgun, whom she found on the local beach, intervened to give her life some meaningToni Jordan]]=== [[image:5star. For a while she was a suspectjpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Women's Fiction|Women's Fiction]], but that ([[:Category:Humour|Humour]] As predicted by Caroline and her wig) were no obstacle to her falling for Commissario Vito Montana who was assigned to investigate the case. Assisting him (or having him assist her) came naturally to Poldi Janice's mother on Caroline and before long there was an investigative Henry's wedding day, their marriage is over, albeit 15 years and personal partnershiptwo daughters further along than predicted. At least so far as Poldi was concernedIndeed, this is definitely not a good weekend for Janice to be babysitting at Caroline's house.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908524693</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Grady Hendrix|title= My Best Friend'There's Exorcism|rating= 5|genre= Horror|summary=1988, Charleston, South Carolina. High school sophomores Abby the split and Gretchen have been best friends since fourth grade. But after an evening the awkwardness of skinny-dipping goes disatrously wrong, Gretchen begins to act...different. Shethe girls's moodyschoolteacher being the other woman for a start. SheThen there's irritablethat mistaken identity moment involving the neighbours. And bizarre incidents keep happening whenever sheAt least Janice is well adjusted and over her ex-husband Alec. She still dreams of him, yes, but it's nearby. Abbyso over! 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