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[[Category:New Reviews|Humour]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreview|class-"wikitable" cellpadding="15" <!-- INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE--><!-- Hogan -->|author=James Goss and Russell T Davies-|titlestyle=Doctor Who"width: Now We Are Six Hundred10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: A Collection of Time Lord Verse (Dr Who)center;"|[[image:1473669065.jpg|ratinglink=4http://www.amazon.co.5uk/dp/1473669065/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  |genrestyle=Children'"vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Queenie Malone's Rhymes and Verse Paradise Hotel by Ruth Hogan]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|summarylink=Consider the Doctor. Just how many birthday and Christmas gifts must he have Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]], [[:Category:Humour|Humour]], [[:Category:Paranormal|Paranormal]] Tilda returns to hand out each yearBrighton, were he to keep in touch with even half tidy away the remains of his companions? He would certainly need a few novelty gifts for some of themher mother's life after her death. Whilst there, sayshe returns to the Paradise hotel, a haven for exampleeccentrics and misfits. A place where people can be themselves, whimsical books and let go of verse thoughts that pithily encapsulate the life of torment them elsewhere. Little wonder that Tilda cannot forgive her mother for banishing her as a Time Lord and that child, from this place of some wonder. With the help of his friends Queenie Malone, caring, and enemies. As luck would have itgregarious, he has Tilda begins to pick apart the space in his TARDIS to stock up in advance, so my advice to him – sorry, tricky and uncertain relationship she had with her – would be to pop along to his local Earth-based book emporium sometimes cruel and get himself readydistant mother. And if you[[Queenie Malone'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 same.s Paradise Hotel by Ruth Hogan|Full Review]] |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785942719</amazonuk!-- van LENTE -->}}{{newreview|author=Annie Ingram-|titlestyle=Conversations with Kammie"width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|rating=4[[image:1683690346.jpg|genrelink=Petshttp://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1683690346/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|summary=It was something of a relief when I encountered Annie Ingram and her cocker spaniel Kammie==[[The Con Artist by Fred Van Lente]]=== [[image:4star. You seejpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime|Crime]], Annie knows something which has been self-evident to me for a long time[[:Category: dogs Humour|Humour]] Comic-Cons are perfectly capable a place of communicating with humans wonder and sanctuary for many people, and not just on a level of ''food!''when Comic book artist Mike Mason arrives at San Diego Comic-Con, he''walk!'' or ''play!''s looking for both that and sanctuary with other fans and creators, plus the chance of maybe, just maybe reuniting with his ex. You do require extensive training to become fluentHowever, but most dogs will be perfectly willing when his rival is found dead, Mike is forced to give their time navigate every dark corner of the con in order to teach you clear his name – from cosplay flash mobs and all you have intrusive fans to do is listen. Annie has studied hard: Kammie has trained her well and the pair have allowed us to share some of their conversationszombie 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|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785451995</amazonuk>Full Review]]}}{{newreview|author= Charles Harris<!-- Coulton -->|title= The Breaking of Liam Glass-|ratingstyle= 3"width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|genre=Crime[[image:1473669588.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/1473669588/ref=nosim?tag=<amazonuk>1908943823</amazonuk>thebookbag-21]]}}{{newreview|authorstyle= Fred Van Lente"vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"||title= Ten Dead Comedians: A Murder Mystery|rating= 4=[[Falling Short by Lex Coulton]]===|genre= Humour[[image:4star.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]], a comedic legend. Each fits neatly into one of the archetypal comic stereotypes[[:Category: SteveHumour|Humour]], the washed-up has-been [[:Category:Women's Fiction|Women's Fiction]] Lex Coulton's debut novel is a story about mistakes, failures, and relationships. The main protagonist, Frances Pilgrim, is a sixth form English teacher who has recently fallen far from his early days; Zoeout with her best friend Jackson, the rising female star with a new stand-up special coming soon; Dantework colleague, who went from being a kid on and is grappling with the streets to increasingly eccentric behaviour of her mother. This relationship is complicated by the hardest working road comic in the businessfact that Frances's father disappeared at sea when she was five years old. [[Falling Short by Lex Coulton|Full Review]] <!-- van LENTE -->|-| style="width: 10%; Oliver, the childvertical-like prop comic who can't get any respect from his peersalign: 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 shoulder; and Williamalign: left;"|===[[The Con Artist by Fred Van Lente]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime|Crime]], whose redneck character [[:Category:Humour|Humour]] Comic-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''Billy s looking for both that and sanctuary with other fans and creators, plus the Contractor'' is a far cry from chance of maybe, just maybe reuniting with his real personality as a posh millionaireex. Of courseHowever, all nine agree because ''when God almighty walks down on a beam his rival is found dead, Mike is forced to navigate every dark corner of light and asks for your helpthe 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, what the hell else are you going to say?''may just unravel a dark secret behind a legendary industry creator. [[The Con Artist by Fred Van Lente|Full Review]] |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1594749744</amazonuk!-- Curran -->}}{{newreview|-|authorstyle=S Lynn Scott"width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1683690133.jpg|titlelink=Elizabeth, Williamhttp://www.amazon.co. and Meuk/dp/1683690133/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  |ratingstyle=4.5"vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"||genre=Humour==[[My Lady's Choosing by Kitty Curran and Larissa Zageris]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|summarylink=Ally is an ordinary woman with teenage childrenCategory:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Humour|Humour]], [[:Category:Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]] You are a husband lass of twenty eight. Plucky, penniless and in Regency era London the race is on to find a jobsuitable suitor - or else doom yourself to life as an eternal spinster. Then comes the day when ordinariness flies out of the window. ItAlong your journey you's not ll be accompanied by Lady Evangeline Youngblood - a fiesty noble eager to save you from a coincidence that itlife alone, and fired by a rogueish sense for adventure. When it comes to suitors though, you's ll have to make the same day she finds Queen Elizabeth I in the pantry ultimate decision between witty, pretty and wealthy Sir Benedict Granville, wholesome, rugged and caring Captain Angus MacTaggart, or the Bard of Avon in her bathmad, bad and terrifyingly sexy Lord Garraway Craven. WhatWith orphans, werewolves, long lost lovers and ancient Egyptian artifcats along the way, it's she clear this isn't going to do? Well, Elizabeth be an easy decision... [[My Lady's Choosing by Kitty Curran and Will have their own ideas about that!Larissa Zageris|Full Review]] |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1788037006</amazonuk!-- Jester -->}}{{newreview|author= E G Rodford-|titlestyle= The Surgeon's Case"width: 10%; vertical-align: George Kocharyan Mystery 2top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Jester_Forever.jpg|ratingleft|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1510704361?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN= 41510704361]] |genre= Crime |summarystyle=In the second instalment of this series, Private Investigator George Kocharyan has been hired "vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Forever After: a dark comedy by a well-known local man to track down some missing valuablesDavid Jester]]=== [[image:4star. Bill Galbraithjpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Paranormal|Paranormal]], [[:Category:Horror|Horror]], [[:Category:Fantasy|Fasntasy]] Michael Holland is a world-famous surgeon at Cambridge's Addenbrooke's Hospital cocky and brash young man who hosts a popular medical television programme, has had dies and gets made the offer of his briefcase stolen by his live-in domestic servant, Auroralifetime; immortality. According to GalbraithWe follow Michael, this briefcase contains confidential notes concerning an important patient of a grim reaper and his at the hospital. George agrees to look into the theft, assuming it will be friends Chip (a relatively easy stoner tooth fairy) and straightforward case – little does he know, he's about to enter Naff (a world of deceit stoner in the records department) as they grapple with their long lives and dysfunctionfinding a clean surface to sit on in their flat.[[Forever After: a dark comedy by David Jester|Full Review]] |amazonuk=<amazonuk>178565005X</amazonuk!-- Stibbe -->}}{{newreview|author=Toni Jordan-|titlestyle=Our Tiny, Useless Hearts"width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[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]]  |genrestyle=Women's Fiction"vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[An Almost Perfect Christmas by Nina Stibbe]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|summarylink=As predicted by Caroline and Janice's mother on Caroline and Henry's wedding dayCategory:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Humour|Humour]], their marriage is over, albeit 15 years and two daughters further along than predicted[[:Category:Short Stories|Short Stories]] Christmas – the time of traditional trauma. Indeed, this is definitely not a good weekend for Janice You only have to be babysitting at Caroline's house. There's think about the split and the awkwardness of the girls' schoolteacher being the other woman turkey for that – once upon a starttime 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. Then thereNowadays it's all having to make sure it's suitably free-range and organic – but not too organic that mistaken identity moment involving the neighbours. At least Janice is well adjusted you can go and visit it, and over her ex-husband Alecget too friendly with it to want to eat it. She still dreams of himChristmas, yesthough, but itis of course also a time of great boons. It's so over! Just as well really… guess cash in hand for a lot of plump people who's at can hire red suits and beards, it was always a godsend for postmen with all the door?thank-you letters to aunties you saw twice a decade that your parents made you write out in long-hand as a child, 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 Christmas by Nina Stibbe|amazonuk=Full Review]] <amazonuk>1760293814</amazonuk!-- Doescher -->}}{{newreview|-|authorstyle=Colin Taylor"width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|title=The Life of a Scilly Sergeant[[image:Doescher_Will.jpg|rating=4.5left|genrelink=Travelhttps://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/159474985X?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=159474985X]]  |summarystyle="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|=Meet ==[[William Shakespeare's the Force Doth Awaken: Star Wars Part the Isles of ScillySeventh by Ian Doescher]]=== [[image:4. (I know they should be called that – the author provides a handy guide to the etiquette of their name, their nature and location, etc5star.) For our more distant readersjpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Science Fiction|Science Fiction]], [[:Category:Humour|Humour]] A long time ago, they're several chunks of granite rock out in the Atlantica galaxy far away, where Cornwall is pointingthere was a man called William Shakespeare, with just 2who was able to create a series of dramatic histories full of machinations most foul,200 permanent residentsrulers most evil and rebellious heroes and heroines most sturdy. They're big on tourismYou may or may not have noticed the cinematic version of his original stage play for ''The Force Doth Awaken'', but here at last we get the actual script, and big on growing flowers complete with annoying-in-different-ways-to-before droids anew, returning heroes from elsewhere in his oeuvre, and people keeping it in the tropical climate the Gulf Stream bequeaths them – although the weather is bad enough to turn any car to a rust bucket within yearsfamily til it hurts. TheyAnd if you need further encouragement, don're so wee, and t forget his audience only demanded three parts of Henry VI – here the series is so idyllicpopular we're on to part seven – surely making this over twice as good… [[William Shakespeare's the Force Doth Awaken: Star Wars Part the Seventh by Ian Doescher|Full Review]] <!-- Goss -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:Goss_600. 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-known online existence, which has brought to life all the whimsical comedy of his workjpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1785942719?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1785942719]]  |amazonukstyle=<amazonuk>178475515X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview"vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|author=Josie Lloyd and Emlyn Rees|title='Twas the Fight Before Christmas: A Parody|rating=3.5|genre=Humour[[Doctor Who: Now We Are Six Hundred: A Collection of Time Lord Verse (Dr Who) by James Goss and Russell T Davies]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|summarylink=It's Christmas Eve Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Children's Rhymes and Mum has arranged everything. All she now has to do is await the arrival of the relatives Verse|Children's Rhymes and the food shopping deliveryVerse]], [[:Category:Science Fiction|Science Fiction]], [[:Category:Humour|Humour]] Consider the Doctor. Little does Mum know that those two elements alone Just how many birthday and Christmas gifts must he have the potential to ruin everything.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472125118</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Ryan North|title=Romeo and/or Juliet|rating=3.5|genre=Humour|summary=For all those who think tragedy plots are too restricted and prescribedhand out each year, were he to keep in touch with even half of his companions? He would certainly need a few novelty gifts for some of them, say, for example, read on. In these pages you too will see whimsical books of verse that pithily encapsulate the life of a Time Lord and that Romeo had lots of options en route to hitting the bottlesome of his friends and enemies. Likewise, she could As luck would have turned away from her predestined path at no end of junctures. And to what result? Wellit, happy marriage and a kid called Ben, because he has the leads have just banged people's heads together and stopped the quarrellingspace in his TARDIS to stock up in advance, or Death by Tybalt (so my advice to him) or a long life running an establishment curing murderous women– sorry, such as a Lady M (her)– would be to pop along to his local Earth-based book emporium and get himself ready. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0356508536</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Gervase Phinn|title= The Virgin Mary's Got NitsAnd if 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 same. [[Doctor Who: Now We Are Six Hundred: A Collection of Time Lord Verse (Dr Who) by James Goss and Russell T Davies|rating= 4.5Full Review]]|genre= Humour|summary= Christmas in our house is the time we tend to get on a plane and head to either sun or snow, anywhere that is far, far away from the madness at home, last minute dashes to the shops on Christmas Eve, and food cupboard stockpiles that would imply supermarkets are shutting for a month, nor a mere 36 hours<!-- Ingram -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Ingram_Kammie.jpg|left|link=https://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: left;"|===[[Conversations with Kammie by Annie Ingram]]=== [[image:4star. But I do remember the feeling of Christmas when I was younger, back when it jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Pets|Pets]], [[:Category:Humour|Humour]] It was magical, and back something of a relief when you knew exactly what the season would bring with carol concerts I encountered Annie Ingram and school nativities and Christmas partiesher cocker spaniel Kammie. This book is an anthology of those momentsYou see, and it took Annie knows something which has been self-evident to me right back to the wonder of Christmas as for a child.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444779400</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Kieran Crowley|title= Shoot|rating= 4|genre= Crime|summary= I make something long time: dogs are perfectly capable of communicating with humans and not just on a habit level of being late food!, walk! or play!. You do require extensive training to discover good writersbecome fluent, in this case getting but most dogs will be perfectly willing to give their time to Crowley after he is no longer with us. The result teach you and all you have to do is that what is billed as ''an Flisten.X. Shepherd mystery'' with all the optimism of there being more to come Annie has studied hard: Kammie has trained her well and the poignancy of being, if not the last pair have allowed us to share some of a short line, certainly one of a fewtheir conversations. F.X. Shepherd – he doesn't like his first name and prefers just [[Conversations with Kammie by Annie Ingram|Full Review]] <!-- Harris -->|-| style="Shepherdwidth: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;" is, technically, a columnist|[[image:Harris_Glass. He's been sacked by one New York newspaper and is writing a weekly column for anotherjpg|link=http://www.amazon.co. 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 soapuk/dp/1908943823/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-washed-foul21]]  | style="vertical-mouthed editor (read the book, you'll see what I mean) expects him to turn in some genuine journalism as wellalign: top; text-align: front page, seat of your pants stuff. left;"||amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783296518</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Gray Jolliffe|title=The First Ever Christmas: And Who to Blame|rating[[The Breaking of Liam Glass by Charles Harris]]===5|genre=Humour[[image:3star.jpg|summarylink=If I tell you a secretCategory:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime|Crime]], will you promise not to tell anyone? Well, I really don't like Christmas[[:Category: it's my least favourite time of year Humour|Humour]] Teenager Liam Glass is mugged and whilst some people count down to stabbed yards from his Camden flat. As the boy lies comatose, desperate journalist Jason Worthington scrabbles for the day itselfinside scoop, I look forward to that point when I can say that it's all over tired police officer Andy Rockham searches for another year. It's all too commercialised a missing tape, harried politician Jamila Hasan fights for mere-election, with a coating of faux religion. I've never found it distraught mother Katrina Glass waits by her son, and gym-owner Royland simply finds himself in the least funny - that iswrong place at the wrong time. We follow this host of ensemble characters in a bleak, until I found Gray Jolliffe's ''kaleidoscopic satire of modern media. [[The First Ever ChristmasBreaking of Liam Glass by Charles Harris|Full Review]] <!-- LENTE -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: And Who's to Blame''top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Lente_10. 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 Christmas-themed cartoons from his archive.jpg|amazonuklink=<amazonuk>1445663503<http://amazonuk>}}www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1683690222/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] {{newreview|authorstyle=Jonathan Pugh"vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|title=Pugh's New Year's Resolutions|rating=4.5|genre=Humour|summary=If there's one thing that's for certain, it's that the world is changing[[Ten Dead Comedians: A Murder Mystery by Fred Van Lente]]=== [[image:4star. We're dating online, we're communicating in ways that make email seem redundantjpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Humour|Humour]] Nine comedians are invited to a remote Caribbean island under the guise of working with Dustin Walker, and when we're shopping we just tell a website where and when it can be deliveredcomedic legend. Each fits neatly into one of the archetypal comic stereotypes: Steve, and how much leeway they have to swap our wishes for whatever it is they do bring us. 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 or notthe washed-up has-been who has fallen far from his early days; Zoe, we have to keep up with the latest fads, and we're supposed to prick our ears rising female star with a new stand-up and take note when special coming soon; Dante, who went from being a kid on the proverbial 'they' change their minds about what we're supposed streets to eat.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780722885</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Luke Rhinehart|title= Invasion|rating= 4.5|genre= Humour |summary=Super-intelligent furry aliens suddenly appear the hardest working road comic in the business; Oliver, the child-like prop comic who can't get any respect from another universe. And they've come to earth to have fun. Alien Louie follows fisherman Billy Morton home one dayhis peers; Janet, and he and his family quickly come to love the playful alien. But when Louie starts using their computer to hack into government and corporate networksinsult comic who is past her prime; TJ, stealing millions from banks to give to others, they realise that Louie and the nightly variety show host with a reputation for harassing his friends mean trouble. As Billy female colleagues and his family begin guest acts; Ruby, the ultra-feminist YouTuber and Blogger with a roller coaster ride of fame chip on her shoulder; and fortuneWilliam, as well as a ranking high on whose redneck character ''Billy the FBIContractor's most wanted list, the Government soon decides that these aliens are terrorists' is a far cry from his real personality as a posh millionaire. Of course, all nine agree because ''when God almighty walks down on a beam of light and must be eliminated. Whilst asks for your help, what the aliens hell else are playing games they hope will help humans you going to see the insanity of the American political, economic and military systems, they soon come to realise that the Powers that Be donsay?''t play games[[Ten Dead Comedians: they make war. A Murder Mystery by Fred Van Lente|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785651757</amazonuk>Full Review]]}}{{newreview<!-- Scott -->|author=Rod Green-|titlestyle=Only Fools and Horses"width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: The Peckham Archivescenter;"|rating=4[[image:Scott_Eliz.jpg|genrelink=Entertainment |summaryhttp://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1788037006/ref=We are in the world of one of the country's most famous and wellnosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-loved sitcoms – even if it was sortalign: top; text-of killed off for Christmas 2003. Yes, there have been specials sincealign: left;"|===[[Elizabeth, William... 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 anotherMe by S Lynn Scott]]=== [[image:4.5star. I'm sure there have been books before now celebrating the stony-faced reception of ''that'' drop through the open bar hatch, and ''that'' chandelier scenejpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Humour|Humour]] Ally is an ordinary woman with teenage children, but this is much more meatya husband and a job. Purporting to be Then comes the family archives, found dumped in Nelson Mandela House, day when ordinariness flies out of the documents here were passed from pillar to post, from one council worker window. It's not a coincidence that it's the same day she finds Queen Elizabeth I in a department with a clumsy acronym to another, from them to the police – pantry and now here they are being published for their social history worththe Bard of Avon in her bath. What's she going to do? Well, Elizabeth and Will enough readers find them of worthhave their own ideas about that! [[Elizabeth, as the series quietly celebrates its 35th birthday?William... and Me by S Lynn Scott|amazonuk=Full Review]] <amazonuk>1849909245</amazonuk!-- Rodford -->}}{{newreview|-|authorstyle= Mara Wilson"width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Rodford_Surgeon.jpg|titlelink= Where Am I Now?http: True Stories of Girlhood and Accidental Fame//www.amazon.co.uk/dp/178565005X/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  |ratingstyle= 5"vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"||genre= Autobiography|summary= Mara Wilson has always felt a little young and a little out of place=[[The Surgeon's Case: George Kocharyan Mystery 2 by E G Rodford]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category: as the only child on a film set full of adults, the first daughter in a house full of boys, the sole clinically depressed member of a cheerleading squad{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime|Crime]], a valley girl in New York and a neurotic in California[[:Category:Humour|Humour]] In the second instalment of this series, and an adult the world still remembers as Private Investigator George Kocharyan has been hired by a little girlwell-known local man to track down some missing valuables. Tackling everything from how she first learned about sex on the set of ''Melrose PlaceBill Galbraith,a world-famous surgeon at Cambridge's Addenbrooke' to losing her mother at s Hospital who hosts a young agepopular medical television programme, to getting her first kiss (or was it kisses?) on a celebrity canoe triphas had his briefcase stolen by his live-in domestic servant, Aurora. According to not being cute enough to make it in HollywoodGalbraith, these essays tell the story this briefcase contains confidential notes concerning an important patient of one young woman's journey from accidental fame his at the hospital. George agrees to relative obscuritylook into the theft, but also illuminate assuming it will be a universal struggle: learning to accept yourself, relatively easy and figuring out who you are straightforward case – little does he know, he's about to enter a world of deceit and where you belongdysfunction. [[The Surgeon's Case: George Kocharyan Mystery 2 by E G Rodford|Full Review]] |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0143128221</amazonuk!-- Jordan -->}}{{newreview|-|authorstyle= Tony Stuart"width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|title= Writing Lines[[image:Jordan_Tiny.jpg|ratinglink= 4http://www.amazon.co.5|genre=Humouruk/dp/1760293814/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  |summarystyle= George Gordon Wentworth (1946"vertical-align: top; text-2011) lived a humdrum life. He was a barely adequate teacher in a fairly world renowned independent school in Kent and kept a copious diary of his quotidian existence. Most of what he recorded was dross. Howeveralign: left;"|===[[Our Tiny, amongst all the utterly uninteresting tailings of his life there were some nuggets and grains to catch the attentionUseless Hearts by Toni Jordan]]=== [[image:5star. Author Tony Stuart has created these amusing anecdotes, panning them out over twenty six episodes which give us the best of Wentworth – comedy gold. 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 jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Women's Fiction|Women's Fiction]], [[:Category:Humour|Humour]] As predicted by Caroline and Janice's mother on Caroline and Henry's wedding day, their weddingmarriage is over, to destroying a ski run; from appearing full-frontal naked in albeit 15 years and two daughters further along than predicted. Indeed, this is definitely not a sheep-farmersgood weekend for Janice to be babysitting at Caroline's house. There' gazette to triggering an air-sea rescue; Wentworth was, blinkered s the split and befuddled, the subject – awkwardness 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 Motoristgirls's Club|rating=3.5|genre=Humour|summary=I passed my driving test when John F Kennedy was in the White House and I've recently had to reapply schoolteacher being the other woman for my driving licence having achieved a venerable agestart. When I started driving Then there's that mistaken identity moment involving the roads were kinder, more forgiving places neighbours. At least Janice is well adjusted and over her ex- or put another wayhusband Alec. She still dreams of him, the idiots were fewer and further between. I don't know how long Graham Fulbright has been drivingyes, but he certainly knows his motoring morons and in it's so over! Just as well really… guess who''Driving Mad'' he brings us a fictional sample of their eccentricities. Wells at the door? [[Our Tiny, I'm pretty certain that they're fictional - but these days you never know...Useless Hearts by Toni Jordan|Full Review]] |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783062584</amazonuk!-- Taylor -->}}{{newreview|author=Mario Giordano-|titlestyle=Auntie Poldi and the Sicilian Lions|rating=4"width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Taylor_Scilly.jpg|genrelink=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/178475515X/ref=nosim?tag=Crimethebookbag-21]]  |summarystyle=Poldi had not long been widowed when she decided to move from Bavaria to Sicily with the intention "vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The Life of drinking herself to deatha Scilly Sergeant by Colin Taylor]]=== [[image:4.5star. She could, of course, have done this in Germany, but she felt that a sea view was essential. Once therejpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Travel|Travel]], new friends, family already resident on [[:Category:Humour|Humour]] Meet the island and the corpse Isles of Scilly. (I know they should be called that – the author provides a young man, his face blown off by a shotgunhandy guide to the etiquette of their name, whom she found on the local beachtheir nature and location, intervened to give her life some meaningetc. ) For a while she was a suspectour more distant readers, but that (and her wig) were no obstacle to her falling for Commissario Vito Montana who was assigned to investigate they're several chunks of granite rock out in the case. Assisting him (or having him assist her) came naturally to Poldi Atlantic, where Cornwall is pointing, with just 2,200 permanent residents. They're big on tourism, and before long there was an investigative and personal partnership. At least so far as Poldi was concernedbig 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.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908524693</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Grady Hendrix|title= My Best Friend's Exorcism|rating= 5|genre= Horror|summary=1988They're so wee, and so idyllic-seeming, Charlestonespecially at night, South Carolina. High school sophomores Abby and Gretchen have been best friends since fourth gradeyou can be mistaken for thinking there would be no need for a police presence. But after an evening there is – at least two working at any one time. And one of skinny-dipping goes disatrously wrongthem in recent years has been Colin Taylor, Gretchen begins to act...different. She's moody. She's irritable. And bizarre incidents keep happening whenever she's nearby. Abby's investigation leads her to some startling discoveries who has done his official duty – alongside maintaining a well- and by the time their story reaches its terrifying conclusionknown online existence, which has brought to life all the fate whimsical comedy of Abby and Gretchen will be determined his work. [[The Life of a Scilly Sergeant by a single question: Is their friendship enough to beat the devil?Colin Taylor|Full Review]] |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1594748624</amazonuk!-- Lloyd -->}}{{newreview|-|authorstyle= Kevin MacNeil"width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|title=The Brilliant and Forever[[image:Lloyd_Twas.jpg|ratinglink= 3http://www.amazon.co.5|genreuk/dp/1472125118/ref=nosim?tag= Humour|summary= You know sometimes when someone tells a joke, everyone else laughs, and you're sat there wondering what was so funny?thebookbag-21]]|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846973376</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|authorstyle= Christopher Fowler|title= Bryant and May"vertical-align: Strange Tidetop; text-align: left;"||rating= ==[['Twas the Fight Before Christmas: A Parody by Josie Lloyd and Emlyn Rees]]=== [[image:3.55star.jpg|genrelink= Crime|summary= The thirteenth outing for Bryant Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Humour|Humour]] It's Christmas Eve and May is looking very much like it will be their lastMum has arranged everything. Arthur Bryant All she now has to do is on compassionate leave whilst tests are continuing, which are likely to confirm that he is suffering from Alzheimer'sawait the arrival of the relatives and the food shopping delivery. His condition is worsening almost by Little does Mum know that those two elements alone have the day, memory lapses are morphing into full-scale hallucinationspotential to ruin everything.[['Twas the Fight Before Christmas: A Parody by Josie Lloyd and Emlyn Rees|amazonuk=Full Review]] <amazonuk>0857523422</amazonuk!-- Phinn -->}}{{newreview|author=Kevin Smith-|titlestyle=The Voyage of the Dolphin"width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|rating[[image:Phinn_Virgin.jpg|left|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1444779400/ref=nosim?tag=5thebookbag-21]]|genre=Historical Fiction|summarystyle=Dublin 1916"vertical-align: Among the unrest and antitop; text-British feeling worsened by the threat of conscription into a war seen as nothing to do with the Irish, Trinity College faculty has other distractions. 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Whether battle cry or epitaphshops on Christmas Eve, three men and a dog… and an iguana… food cupboard stockpiles that would imply supermarkets are going anywayshutting for a month, nor a mere 36 hours.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910124826</amazonuk>|amazonus=<amazonus>1910124826</amazonus>}}{{newreview|author=Tony Hawks|title=Once Upon a Time in 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 West… Country|rating=3|genre=Travel|summary=I have often complained in a jokey voice to my partner about life in the sticksseason would bring with carol concerts and school nativities and Christmas parties. This book is an anthology of those moments, and the way she moved it took me from an inner-city flat right back to slumming it in the suburbs with fewer busses, no takeaways within walkingwonder of Christmas as a child. [[The Virgin Mary's Got Nits by Gervase Phinn|Full Review]] <!-and-keepingDO NOT REMOVE ANYTHING BELOW THIS LINE -food-hot distance, and no 'Polish' shops for a can of beer whenever you fancy one. Things are different with Tony Hawks, as here he has purposefully decided to up sticks from London to Somewhere, Devon – a tiny village where the people who built their own homes decades ago still live in them, where slugs are a lot more of a problem for the wannabe lettuce-grower than they are for the metropolitan commuter, and where village halls have the power to turn you into both a Pol Pot dictator if you get on their committee and into a quivering, bruise-inducing wreck if you're the wrong gender at a Zumba class…|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. Here before me is a brand, spanking new collection of journalism by the wonderful Marian Keyes – but it's a proof copy, so there's no photo of the author. Even if over the years I have stopped reading her novels, I have always turned to the author picture to remind myself such sights exist in this world. Himself is a lucky man, for sure. But beyond sounding like a letch, what can I say about this – the beauty's third large dose of essays, web columns and other journalism? 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 is. So much like that test you do – you know the one, that formulates decisions about the age and commonality of all things in space to come up with how many billions of planets are likely to have alien life on – you can narrow things down quite readily here, and still come up with a huge number.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0718182529</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Jean-Yves Ferri|title= Asterix and the Missing Scroll (Album 36)|rating= 5|genre= For Sharing|summary=Asterix is those rarest of book series; one designed for kids which is actually even funnier when you are an adult. I used to love Asterix as a child, but now that I reread them I can't help but wonder why, because they are so full of hilarious jokes that I definitely wouldn't have understood when I was younger. I laughed loud and hard to myself twice within the first two pages of Asterix and the Missing Scroll, so I'd definitely say that this was a hit.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1510100458</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Spadge Whittaker|title=Braver Than Britain, Occasionally|rating=4|genre=Humour|summary=In which Spadge researches Britain's top ten fears and faces them all over the course of a year. We're quite a fearful society, you know. And the things we fear most are, in order: heights (acrophobia), snakes (ophidiophobia), public speaking (glossophobia), spiders (arachnophobia), small spaces (claustrophobia), mice (musophobia), needles (trypanophobia), flying (pteromerhanophobia), crowds (agoraphobia) and clowns (coulrophobia).>|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0993429904</amazonuk>}}