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{{newreview|authorclass-"wikitable" cellpadding= David Jester"15" <!-- INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE-->|title= Forever After: a dark comedy<!-- Hogan -->|rating= 4-|genrestyle= Paranormal"width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1473669065.jpg|summarylink= Michael Holland is a cocky and brash young man who dies and gets made the offer of his lifetime; immortalityhttp://www.amazon.co. We follow Michael, a grim reaper and his friends Chip (a stoner tooth fairy) and Naff (a stoner in the records department) as they grapple with their long lives and finding a clean surface to sit on in their flatuk/dp/1473669065/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Queenie Malone's Paradise Hotel by Ruth Hogan]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|amazonuklink=<amazonuk>1510704361</amazonuk>Category:{{{rating}}}{{newreviewStar Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|author=Nina StibbeGeneral Fiction]], [[:Category:Humour|title=An Almost Perfect ChristmasHumour]], [[:Category:Paranormal|rating=4.5Paranormal]]|genre=Humour |summary=Christmas – Tilda returns to Brighton, to tidy away the time remains of traditional traumaher mother's life after her death. You only have Whilst there, she returns to think about the turkey Paradise hotel, a haven for that – once upon a time it was leaving it sat on the downstairs loo to defrost overnighteccentrics and misfits. A place where people can be themselves, and if let go of thoughts that torment them elsewhere. Little wonder that failed the hair-dryer shoved inside it treatment was your next best betTilda cannot forgive her mother for banishing her as a child, from this place of wonder. Nowadays it's all having With the help of Queenie Malone, caring, and gregarious, Tilda begins to make sure itpick apart the tricky and uncertain relationship she had with her sometimes cruel and distant mother. [[Queenie Malone's suitably freeParadise Hotel by Ruth Hogan|Full Review]] <!-- van LENTE -->|-range and organic – but not too organic that you can go and visit it, and get too friendly with it to want to eat it| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1683690346.jpg|link=http://www.amazon. Christmas, though, is of course also a time of great boonsco. It's cash in hand for a lot of plump people who can hire red suits and beardsuk/dp/1683690346/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The Con Artist by Fred Van Lente]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime|Crime]], it was always [[:Category:Humour|Humour]] Comic-Cons are a godsend place of wonder and sanctuary for many people, and when Comic book artist Mike Mason arrives at San Diego Comic-Con, he's looking for postmen both that and sanctuary with all other fans and creators, plus the thank-you letters chance of maybe, just maybe reuniting with his ex. However, when his rival is found dead, Mike is forced to aunties you saw twice a decade that your parents made you write out navigate every dark corner of the con in long-hand as a child, order to clear his name – from cosplay flash mobs and as for the makers of Meltis Newberry Fruits intrusive fans to zombie obstacle courses – wellMike must prove his innocence and, in doing so, did they even try and sell them any other time of the year?may just unravel a dark secret behind a legendary industry creator. [[The Con Artist by Fred Van Lente|Full Review]]  |amazonuk=<amazonuk!-- Coulton -->0241309824</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Ian Doescher-|titlestyle=William Shakespeare's the Force Doth Awaken"width: Star Wars Part the Seventh10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1473669588.jpg|ratinglink=4http://www.amazon.co.5uk/dp/1473669588/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] |genre=Science Fiction|summarystyle=A long time ago"vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Falling Short by Lex Coulton]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]], in a galaxy far away[[:Category:Humour|Humour]], there was [[:Category:Women's Fiction|Women's Fiction]] Lex Coulton's debut novel is a man called William Shakespearestory about mistakes, failures, and relationships. The main protagonist, Frances Pilgrim, is a sixth form English teacher who was able to create has recently fallen out with her best friend Jackson, a series of dramatic histories full of machinations most foulwork colleague, rulers most evil and rebellious heroes and heroines most sturdyis grappling with the increasingly eccentric behaviour of her mother. You may or may not have noticed This relationship is complicated by the cinematic version of his original stage play for fact that Frances''The Force Doth Awaken'', but here s father disappeared at last we get the actual script, complete with annoyingsea when she was five years old. [[Falling Short by Lex Coulton|Full Review]] <!-- van LENTE -in-different>|-ways| style="width: 10%; vertical-toalign: top; text-before droids anew, returning heroes from elsewhere in his oeuvre, and people keeping it in the family til it hurtsalign: center;"|[[image:1683690346.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co. And if you need further encouragement, don't forget his audience only demanded three parts of Henry VI – here the series is so popular we're on to part seven – surely making this over twice as good…uk/dp/1683690346/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  |amazonukstyle=<amazonuk>159474985X</amazonuk>"vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|}}===[[The Con Artist by Fred Van Lente]]==={{newreview|author=James Goss and Russell T Davies[[image:4star.jpg|titlelink=Doctor WhoCategory: Now We Are Six Hundred{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime|Crime]], [[:Category: A Collection of Time Lord Verse (Dr Who)Humour|rating=4.5Humour]]|genre=Children's Rhymes and Verse |summary=Consider the Doctor. Just how Comic-Cons are a place of wonder and sanctuary for many birthday people, and Christmas gifts must he have to hand out each yearwhen Comic book artist Mike Mason arrives at San Diego Comic-Con, were he to keep in touch 's looking for both that and sanctuary with even half other fans and creators, plus the chance of maybe, just maybe reuniting with his companions? He would certainly need a few novelty gifts for some of themex. However, saywhen his rival is found dead, for example, whimsical books of verse that pithily encapsulate Mike is forced to navigate every dark corner of the life of a Time Lord con in order to clear his name – from cosplay flash mobs and that of some of intrusive fans to zombie obstacle courses – Mike must prove his friends innocence and enemies. As luck would have it, he has the space in his TARDIS to stock up in advancedoing so, so my advice to him – sorry, her – would be to pop along to his local Earth-based book emporium and get himself ready. And if you're working on a shorter timescale, with a shorter lifespan, and thinking perhaps just one gift season ahead, well my advice is pretty much the samemay just unravel a dark secret behind a legendary industry creator.[[The Con Artist by Fred Van Lente|Full Review]] |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785942719</amazonuk!-- Curran -->}}{{newreview|-|authorstyle=Annie Ingram"width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|title=Conversations with Kammie[[image:1683690133.jpg|ratinglink=4http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1683690133/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  |genrestyle=Pets"vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"||summary=It was something of a relief when I encountered Annie Ingram and her cocker spaniel Kammie==[[My Lady's Choosing by Kitty Curran and Larissa Zageris]]=== [[image:4star. You seejpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Humour|Humour]], Annie knows something which has been self-evident to me for a long time[[:Category: dogs Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]] You are perfectly capable a lass of communicating with humans twenty eight. Plucky, penniless and not just in Regency era London the race is on to find a level of ''food!'suitable suitor - or else doom yourself to life as an eternal spinster. Along your journey you'll be accompanied by Lady Evangeline Youngblood - a fiesty noble eager to save you from a life alone, and fired by a rogueish sense for adventure. When it comes to suitors though, you''walk!'' ll have to make the ultimate decision between witty, pretty and wealthy Sir Benedict Granville, wholesome, rugged and caring Captain Angus MacTaggart, or the mad, bad and terrifyingly sexy Lord Garraway Craven. With orphans, werewolves, long lost lovers and ancient Egyptian artifcats along the way, it's clear this isn'play!''t going to be an easy decision... You do require extensive training to become fluent, but most dogs will be perfectly willing to give their time to teach you [[My Lady's Choosing by Kitty Curran 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.Larissa Zageris|Full Review]] <!-- Jester -->|-|amazonukstyle=<amazonuk>1785451995<"width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Jester_Forever.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/amazonuk>gp/product/1510704361?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1510704361]]}}{{newreview|authorstyle= Charles Harris"vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"||title= The Breaking of Liam Glass|rating= 3=[[Forever After: a dark comedy by David Jester]]===|genre=Crime[[image:4star.jpg|summarylink= A flawed but reasonably entertaining swipe at modern media. There's plenty here to like, and plenty not to. But good structure and scramjet pace keep this one flying to the final page.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908943823</amazonuk>Category:{{{rating}}}{{newreviewStar Reviews]] [[:Category:Paranormal|author= Fred Van LenteParanormal]], [[:Category:Horror|title= Ten Dead ComediansHorror]], [[:Category: A Murder MysteryFantasy|rating= 4Fasntasy]]|genre= Humour|summary= Nine comedians are invited to Michael Holland is a remote Caribbean island under cocky and brash young man who dies and gets made the guise offer of working with Dustin Walkerhis lifetime; immortality. We follow Michael, a comedic legend. Each fits neatly into one of grim reaper and his friends Chip (a stoner tooth fairy) and Naff (a stoner in the archetypal comic stereotypes: Steve, the washed-up has-been who has fallen far from his early days; Zoe, the rising female star with records department) as they grapple with their long lives and finding a new stand-up special coming soon; Dante, who went from being a kid clean surface to sit on the streets to the hardest working road comic in the business; Oliver, the childtheir flat. [[Forever After: a dark comedy by David Jester|Full Review]] <!-- Stibbe --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; Ruby, the ultra"|[[image:Stibbe_Xmas.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0241309824?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-feminist YouTuber and Blogger with a chip on her shoulder21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=0241309824]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left; and William, whose redneck character ''Billy the Contractor'' is a far cry from his real personality as a posh millionaire"|===[[An Almost Perfect Christmas by Nina Stibbe]]=== [[image:4.5star. Of course, all nine agree because ''when God almighty walks down on a beam of light and asks for your helpjpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Humour|Humour]], what [[:Category:Short Stories|Short Stories]] Christmas – the hell else are you going time of traditional trauma. You only have to say?''|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1594749744</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=S Lynn Scott|title=Elizabeththink about the turkey for that – once upon a time it was leaving it sat on the downstairs loo to defrost overnight, William... and Me|rating=4if that failed the hair-dryer shoved inside it treatment was your next best bet.5|genre=Humour|summary=Ally is an ordinary woman with teenage children, a husband Nowadays it's all having to make sure it's suitably free-range and a job. Then comes the day when ordinariness flies out of the window. It's organic – but not a coincidence too organic that you can go and visit it', and get too friendly with it to want to eat it. Christmas, though, is of course also a time of great boons. It's the same day she finds Queen Elizabeth I cash in the pantry hand for a lot of plump people who can hire red suits and beards, it was always a godsend for postmen with all the Bard of Avon in her bath. What's she going thank-you letters to do? Wellaunties you saw twice a decade that your parents made you write out in long-hand as a child, Elizabeth and Will have their own ideas about that!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|Full Review]] |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1788037006</amazonuk!-- Doescher -->}}{{newreview|-|authorstyle= E G Rodford|title= The Surgeon's Case"width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: George Kocharyan Mystery 2center;"|rating= 4[[image:Doescher_Will.jpg|genre= Crime left|summarylink=In the second instalment of this series, Private Investigator George Kocharyan has been hired by a wellhttps://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/159474985X?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-known local man to track down some missing valuables. Bill Galbraith, a world21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=159474985X]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-famous surgeon at Cambridgealign: left;"|===[[William Shakespeare's Addenbrooke's Hospital who hosts a popular medical television programme, has had his briefcase stolen the Force Doth Awaken: Star Wars Part the Seventh by his live-in domestic servant, AuroraIan Doescher]]=== [[image:4.5star. According to Galbraithjpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Science Fiction|Science Fiction]], this briefcase contains confidential notes concerning an important patient of his at the hospital. George agrees to look into the theft[[:Category:Humour|Humour]] A long time ago, assuming it will be in a relatively easy and straightforward case – little does he knowgalaxy far away, he's about to enter there was a world man called William Shakespeare, who was able to create a series of deceit dramatic histories full of machinations most foul, rulers most evil and rebellious heroes and dysfunctionheroines most sturdy.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178565005X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Toni Jordan|title=Our Tiny You may or may not have noticed the cinematic version of his original stage play for ''The Force Doth Awaken'', Useless Hearts|rating=5|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=As predicted by Caroline and Janice's mother on Caroline and Henry's wedding daybut here at last we get the actual script, complete with annoying-in-different-ways-to-before droids anew, their marriage is overreturning heroes from elsewhere in his oeuvre, albeit 15 years and two daughters further along than predictedpeople keeping it in the family til it hurts. IndeedAnd if you need further encouragement, this is definitely not a good weekend for Janice to be babysitting at Carolinedon's house. Theret forget his audience only demanded three parts of Henry VI – here the series is so popular we're on to part seven – surely making this over twice as good… [[William Shakespeare's the split and Force Doth Awaken: Star Wars Part the awkwardness of the girls' schoolteacher being the other woman for a start. Then there's that mistaken identity moment involving the neighbours. At least Janice is well adjusted and over her exSeventh by Ian Doescher|Full Review]] <!-- Goss -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-husband Alecalign: center;"|[[image:Goss_600. She still dreams of him, yes, but it's so over! Just as well really… guess who's at the doorjpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1785942719?|amazonukie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=<amazonuk>1760293814</amazonuk>1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1785942719]]}}{{newreview|authorstyle=Colin Taylor"vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|title=The Life of a Scilly Sergeant|rating=4.5|genre=Travel|summary=Meet the Isles [[Doctor Who: Now We Are Six Hundred: A Collection of Scilly. Time Lord Verse (I know they should be called that – the author provides a handy guide to the etiquette of their name, their nature and location, etcDr Who) by James Goss and Russell T Davies]]=== [[image:4.5star.) For our more distant readers, theyjpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Children's Rhymes and Verse|Children're several chunks of granite rock out in the Atlantics Rhymes and Verse]], where Cornwall is pointing[[:Category:Science Fiction|Science Fiction]], with just 2,200 permanent residents[[:Category:Humour|Humour]] Consider the Doctor. They're big on tourism, Just how many birthday and big on growing flowers in the tropical climate the Gulf Stream bequeaths them – although the weather is bad enough to turn any car Christmas gifts must he have to hand out each year, were he to keep in touch with even half of his companions? He would certainly need a rust bucket within years. They're so weefew novelty gifts for some of them, and so idyllic-seemingsay, especially at nightfor example, you can be mistaken for thinking there would be no need for whimsical books of verse that pithily encapsulate the life of a police presenceTime Lord and that of some of his friends and enemies. But there is – at least two working at any one time. And one of them in recent years has been Colin TaylorAs luck would have it, who he has done the space in his official duty – alongside maintaining a well-known online existenceTARDIS to stock up in advance, which has brought so my advice to him – sorry, her – would be to pop along to life all the whimsical comedy of his worklocal Earth-based book emporium and get himself ready.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178475515X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Josie Lloyd And if you're working on a shorter timescale, with a shorter lifespan, and Emlyn Rees|title='Twas thinking perhaps just one gift season ahead, well my advice is pretty much the Fight Before Christmassame. [[Doctor Who: Now We Are Six Hundred: A Parody|rating=3.5Collection of Time Lord Verse (Dr Who) by James Goss and Russell T Davies|Full Review]] <!-- Ingram -->|-|genrestyle=Humour"width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Ingram_Kammie.jpg|summaryleft|link=It's Christmas Eve and Mum has arranged everythinghttps://www.amazon. All she now has to do is await the arrival of the relatives and the food shopping deliveryco. Little does Mum know that those two elements alone have the potential to ruin everything.|amazonukuk/gp/product/1785451995?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=<amazonuk>1472125118</amazonuk>}}1785451995]]{{newreview|author=Ryan North|titlestyle=Romeo and/or Juliet"vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"||rating=3.5==[[Conversations with Kammie by Annie Ingram]]===|genre=Humour[[image:4star.jpg|summarylink=For all those who think tragedy plots are too restricted Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Pets|Pets]], [[:Category:Humour|Humour]] It was something of a relief when I encountered Annie Ingram and prescribed, read onher cocker spaniel Kammie. In these pages you too will You see that Romeo had lots of options en route , Annie knows something which has been self-evident to hitting the bottle. Likewise, she could have turned away from her predestined path at no end me for a long time: dogs are perfectly capable of junctures. And to what result? Well, happy marriage communicating with humans and not just on a kid called Ben, because the leads have just banged people's heads together and stopped the quarrellinglevel of food!, walk! or Death by Tybalt (him) or a long life running an establishment curing murderous womenplay!. You do require extensive training to become fluent, such as a Lady M (her)but most dogs will be perfectly willing to give their time to teach you and all you have to do is listen. |amazonuk=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>0356508536</amazonuk!-- Harris -->}}{{newreview|-|authorstyle= Gervase Phinn"width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|title= The Virgin Mary's Got Nits[[image:Harris_Glass.jpg|ratinglink= 4http://www.amazon.5|genre= Humourco.uk/dp/1908943823/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  |summarystyle="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|= Christmas in our house is the time we tend to get on a plane and head to either sun or snow==[[The Breaking of Liam Glass by Charles Harris]]=== [[image:3star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime|Crime]], anywhere that [[:Category:Humour|Humour]] Teenager Liam Glass is far, far away mugged and stabbed yards from his Camden flat. As the madness at homeboy lies comatose, last minute dashes to desperate journalist Jason Worthington scrabbles for the shops on Christmas Eveinside scoop, and food cupboard stockpiles that would imply supermarkets are shutting tired police officer Andy Rockham searches for a monthmissing tape, nor a mere 36 hours. But I do remember the feeling of Christmas when I was youngerharried politician Jamila Hasan fights for re-election, back when it was magicaldistraught mother Katrina Glass waits by her son, and back when you knew exactly what gym-owner Royland simply finds himself in the wrong place at the season would bring with carol concerts and school nativities and Christmas partieswrong time. This book is an anthology We follow this host of those momentsensemble characters in a bleak, and it took me right back to the wonder kaleidoscopic satire of Christmas as a childmodern media.[[The Breaking of Liam Glass by Charles Harris|Full Review]] |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444779400</amazonuk!-- LENTE -->}}{{newreview|author= Kieran Crowley-|titlestyle= Shoot|rating= 4"width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Lente_10.jpg|genrelink=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1683690222/ref=nosim?tag= Crimethebookbag-21]]  |summarystyle= I make something of a habit of being late to discover good writers, in this case getting to Crowley after he is no longer with us"vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Ten Dead Comedians: A Murder Mystery by Fred Van Lente]]=== [[image:4star. The result is that what is billed as ''an F.X. Shepherd mystery'' with all the optimism of there being more jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Humour|Humour]] Nine comedians are invited to come has a remote Caribbean island under the poignancy guise of beingworking with Dustin Walker, if not the last of a short line, certainly comedic legend. Each fits neatly into one of a few. F.X. Shepherd – he doesn't like the archetypal comic stereotypes: Steve, the washed-up has-been who has fallen far from his first name and prefers just "Shepherd" is, technicallyearly days; Zoe, the rising female star with a columnist. He's been sacked by one New York newspaper and is writing a weekly column for another. I don't know much about journalismnew stand-up special coming soon; Dante, but I'm guessing one column who went from being a week doesn't pay much as a rule…which explains why Shepherd's soap-washed-foul-mouthed editor (read kid on the streets to the hardest working road comic in the bookbusiness; Oliver, youthe child-like prop comic who can'll see what I mean) expects him to turn in some genuine journalism as well: front paget get any respect from his peers; Janet, the insult comic who is past her prime; TJ, seat of your pants stuff. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783296518</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Gray Jolliffe|title=The First Ever Christmas: And Who to Blame|rating=5|genre=Humour|summary=If I tell you the nightly variety show host with a secret, will you promise not to tell anyone? Wellreputation for harassing his female colleagues and guest acts; Ruby, the ultra-feminist YouTuber and Blogger with a chip on her shoulder; and William, I really donwhose redneck character 't like Christmas: it's my least favourite time of year and whilst some people count down to Billy the day itself, I look forward to that point when I can say that itContractor's all over for another year. It's all too commercialised for me, with is a coating of faux religionfar cry from his real personality as a posh millionaire. I've never found it in the least funny - that isOf course, until I found Gray Jolliffeall nine agree because 's ''The First Ever Christmas: And Who's when God almighty walks down on a beam of light and asks for your help, what the hell else are you going to Blamesay?''. 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[[Ten Dead Comedians: A Murder Mystery by Fred Van Lente|Full Review]] <!-- Scott -->|-themed cartoons from his archive.|amazonukstyle=<amazonuk>1445663503<"width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Scott_Eliz.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1788037006/amazonuk>ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]}}{{newreview|authorstyle=Jonathan Pugh"vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|title==Pugh's New Year's Resolutions|rating=4[[Elizabeth, William...5and Me by S Lynn Scott]]===|genre=Humour[[image:4.5star.jpg|summarylink=If there's one thing that's for certain, it's that the world is changing. We're dating online, we're communicating in ways that make email seem redundantCategory:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Humour|Humour]] Ally is an ordinary woman with teenage children, a husband and a job. Then comes the day when weordinariness flies out of the window. It're shopping we just tell s not a website where and when coincidence that it can be delivered's the same day she finds Queen Elizabeth I in the pantry and the Bard of Avon in her bath. What's she going to do? Well, Elizabeth and how much leeway they Will have to swap our wishes for whatever it is they do bring ustheir own ideas about that! [[Elizabeth, William... 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 not, we have to keep up with the latest fads, and we're supposed to prick our ears up and take note when the proverbial 'they' change their minds about what we're supposed to eatand Me by S Lynn Scott|Full Review]] <!-- Rodford -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Rodford_Surgeon.jpg|amazonuklink=<amazonuk>1780722885<http://amazonuk>}}www.amazon.co.uk/dp/178565005X/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] {{newreview|authorstyle= Luke Rhinehart"vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|title= Invasion|rating= 4.5|genre= Humour |summary=Super-intelligent furry aliens suddenly appear from another universe. And they[[The Surgeon've come to earth to have funs Case: George Kocharyan Mystery 2 by E G Rodford]]=== [[image:4star. Alien Louie follows fisherman Billy Morton home one dayjpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime|Crime]], and he and his family quickly come to love [[:Category:Humour|Humour]] In the playful alien. But when Louie starts using their computer to hack into government and corporate networkssecond instalment of this series, stealing millions from banks Private Investigator George Kocharyan has been hired by a well-known local man to give to others, they realise that Louie and his friends mean troubletrack down some missing valuables. As Billy and his family begin a roller coaster ride of fame and fortuneBill Galbraith, as well as a ranking high on the FBIworld-famous surgeon at Cambridge's Addenbrooke's most wanted list, the Government soon decides that these aliens are terroristsHospital who hosts a popular medical television programme, has had his briefcase stolen by his live-in domestic servant, and must be eliminatedAurora. Whilst the aliens are playing games they hope will help humans According to see the insanity of the American politicalGalbraith, economic and military systems, they soon come this briefcase contains confidential notes concerning an important patient of his at the hospital. George agrees to realise that look into the Powers that Be don't play games: they make war. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785651757</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Rod Green|title=Only Fools theft, assuming it will be a relatively easy and Horses: The Peckham Archives|rating=4straightforward case – little does he know, he's about to enter a world of deceit and dysfunction. [[The Surgeon's Case: George Kocharyan Mystery 2 by E G Rodford|Full Review]] <!-- Jordan -->|genre=Entertainment -|summarystyle=We are in the world of one of the country's most famous and well"width: 10%; vertical-loved sitcoms – even if it was sortalign: top; text-of killed off for Christmas 2003align: center;"|[[image:Jordan_Tiny. Yes, there have been specials since, 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 anotherjpg|link=http://www.amazon.co. I'm sure there have been books before now celebrating the stonyuk/dp/1760293814/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-faced reception of ''that'' drop through the open bar hatch21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Our Tiny, and ''that'' chandelier scene, but this is much more meatyUseless Hearts by Toni Jordan]]=== [[image:5star. Purporting to be the family archivesjpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Women's Fiction|Women's Fiction]], found dumped in Nelson Mandela House[[:Category:Humour|Humour]] As predicted by Caroline and Janice's mother on Caroline and Henry's wedding day, the documents here were passed from pillar to posttheir marriage is over, from one council worker in a department with albeit 15 years and two daughters further along than predicted. Indeed, this is definitely not a clumsy acronym to another, from them good weekend for Janice to be babysitting at Caroline's house. There's the police – split and now here they are the awkwardness of the girls' schoolteacher being published the other woman for their social history wortha start. Will enough readers find them of worth, as Then there's that mistaken identity moment involving the series quietly celebrates its 35th birthday?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849909245</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Mara Wilson|title= Where Am I Now?: True Stories of Girlhood neighbours. At least Janice is well adjusted and Accidental Fame|rating= 5|genre= Autobiography|summary= Mara Wilson has always felt a little young and a little out over her ex-husband Alec. She still dreams of place: as the only child on a film set full of adultshim, the first daughter in a house full of boysyes, the sole clinically depressed member of a cheerleading squad, a valley girl in New York and a neurotic in California, and an adult the world still remembers but it's so over! Just as a little girl. Tackling everything from how she first learned about sex on well really… guess who's at the set of ''Melrose Place,'' to losing her mother at a young age, to getting her first kiss (or was it kissesdoor?) on a celebrity canoe trip[[Our Tiny, Useless Hearts by Toni Jordan|Full Review]] <!-- Taylor -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Taylor_Scilly.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/178475515X/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The Life of a Scilly Sergeant by Colin Taylor]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Travel|Travel]], [[:Category:Humour|Humour]] Meet the Isles of Scilly. (I know they should be called that – the author provides a handy guide to not being cute enough to make it in Hollywood, these essays tell the story of one young woman's journey from accidental fame to relative obscurity, but also illuminate a universal struggle: learning to accept yourself, and figuring out who you are and where you belong. the etiquette of their name, their nature and location, etc.) For our more distant readers, they're several chunks of granite rock out in the Atlantic, where Cornwall is pointing, with just 2,200 permanent residents. They'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 years. They're so wee, and so idyllic-seeming, especially at night, you can be mistaken for thinking there would be no need for a police presence. 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 work. [[The Life of a Scilly Sergeant by Colin Taylor|Full Review]] <!-- Lloyd -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Lloyd_Twas.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1472125118/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[['Twas the Fight Before Christmas: A Parody by Josie Lloyd and Emlyn Rees]]=== [[image:3.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Humour|Humour]] It's Christmas Eve and Mum has arranged everything. All she now has to do is await the arrival of the relatives and the food shopping delivery. Little does Mum know that those two elements alone have the potential to ruin everything. [['Twas the Fight Before Christmas: A Parody by Josie Lloyd and Emlyn Rees|Full Review]] <!-- Phinn -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Phinn_Virgin.jpg|left|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1444779400/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The Virgin Mary's Got Nits by Gervase Phinn]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Humour|Humour]], [[:Category:Anthologies|Anthologies]] 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. 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 parties. This book is an anthology of those moments, and it took me right back to the wonder of Christmas as a child. [[The Virgin Mary's Got Nits by Gervase Phinn|Full Review]] <!-- DO NOT REMOVE ANYTHING BELOW THIS LINE -->|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0143128221</amazonuk>}}