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|genre=PetsGeneral Fiction|summary=It was something of This is a relief when I encountered Annie Ingram and her cocker spaniel Kammiespoof spy story, that isn't about James Bond. Or Ian Fleming. You seeBut it features a man called Ian Lemming, Annie knows something which has been self-evident to me who dresses well and 'likes the ladies' and who works for the secret service, but in the planning side of things more than the active service. Lemming finds himself put on a long time: dogs are perfectly capable of communicating mission with humans a female spy called Margaux, and not just the pair end up stranded in Normandy, with Margaux on a level of ''food!'', ''walk!'' or ''play!''. You do require extensive training desperate mission to become fluentunearth traitors in the resistance network, but most dogs will be perfectly willing to give their time to teach you and all you have Lemming desperately trying to do is listen. Annie has studied hard: Kammie has trained keep up with her well and the pair have allowed us to share some of their conversations.!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1785451995</amazonuk>2952163855

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Charles HarrisAfonso Cruz and Rahul Bery (translator)|title= The Breaking of Liam GlassKokoschka's Doll|rating= 32.5|genre=CrimeLiterary Fiction|summary= A flawed but reasonably entertaining swipe at modern mediaWell, this looked very much like a book I could love from the get-go, which is why I picked my review copy up and flipped pages over several times before actually reading any of it. There's plenty here I found things to likepotentially delight me each time – a weird section in the middle on darker stock paper, a chapter whose number was in the 20,000s, letters used as narrative form, and plenty not toso on. It intrigued with the subterranean voice a man hears in wartorn Dresden that what little I knew of it mentioned, too. But good structure you've seen the star rating that comes with this review, and scramjet pace keep this one flying to the final pagecan tell that if love was on these pages, it was not actually caused by them. So what happened?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1908943823</amazonuk>1529402697

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Fred Van LenteB08KKQ85FN|title= Ten Dead Comedians: A Murder MysteryBut Never For Lunch|author=Sandra Aragona|rating= 4|genre= HumourShort Stories|summary= Nine comedians are invited ''If a woman approaching the menopause can be likened to a remote Caribbean island under the guise of working with Dustin WalkerRottweiler in lipstick, an Ambassador nearing retirement resembles a comedic legend. Each fits neatly pampered peacock about to be released into one the company of the archetypal comic stereotypes: Steve, the washed-up has-been who has fallen far from his early days; Zoecarrion crows or, more to the rising female star with a new stand-up special coming soon; Dantepoint, who went from being a kid on the streets about to discover the hardest working road comic in the business; Oliver, the child-like prop comic who canreal world of bus timetables and paying his own gas bills.'' You don't get any respect from his peers; Janetmany better opening sentences than that, do you? We first met His Excellency and The Ambassador's Wife in [[Sorting the insult comic who is past her prime; TJ, Priorities: Ambassadress and Beagle Survive Diplomacy by Sandra Aragona|Sorting the nightly variety show host with a reputation for harassing his female colleagues Priorities]] and guest acts; Ruby, we learned what it was like to be moved around countries like accompanying baggage by the Italian Government but the ultra-feminist YouTuber time has come for HE to retires and Blogger with a chip on her shoulder; for Sandra Aragona to become The Wife of Former Ambassador... They have left The Career and William, whose redneck character settled in Rome. Well 'settled'Billy rather overstates the Contractor'' is a far cry from his real personality as a posh millionaire. Of coursesituation and their dog, Beagle, all nine agree because ''when God almighty walks has no intention of slowing down on a beam of light any time soon, despite being sixteen and asks for your help, what the hell else are you going to say?''|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1594749744</amazonuk>deaf.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=S Lynn ScottB08GFSK2WZ|title=Elizabeth, William... and Me|rating=4.5|genre=Humour|summary=Ally is an ordinary woman with teenage children, a husband and a job. Then comes the day when ordinariness flies out of the window. It'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. What's she going to do? Well, Elizabeth and Will have their own ideas about that!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1788037006</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewThe Karma Trap|author= E G Rodford|title= The Surgeon's Case: George Kocharyan Mystery 2Lisette Boyd|rating= 4|genre= Crime |summary=In the second instalment of this series, Private Investigator George Kocharyan has been hired by a well-known local man to track down some missing valuables. Bill Galbraith, a world-famous surgeon at Cambridge's Addenbrooke's Hospital who hosts a popular medical television programme, has had his briefcase stolen by his live-in domestic servant, Aurora. According to Galbraith, this briefcase contains confidential notes concerning an important patient of his at the hospital. George agrees to look into the theft, 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>178565005X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Toni Jordan|title=Our Tiny, Useless Hearts|rating=5

|summary=As predicted by Caroline George Jackson is thirty-three years old, absolutely gorgeous to look at - and Janicesingle. She's mother on Caroline not had sex for eight months and Henryshe's wedding day, their marriage stuck in the karma trap: an awful lot of bad luck is over, albeit 15 years being visited on her and two daughters further along than predicted. Indeed, this is definitely not she has a good weekend real talent for Janice to be babysitting at Caroline's houseattracting drama. ThereHer life's chaotic: she dealt with the leak from the split and shower by putting something down at the awkwardness bottom of the girls' schoolteacher being stairs to absorb the water - then the shower fell through the roof whilst she was in it and left her, stark naked, staring at the other woman for a startpervy postman. Then thereShe only has to take her mother's that mistaken identity moment involving dog out for a walk for her to end up with dog poo spattered across her face - and a photo being taken by someone who shares it around the neighboursoffice. At least Janice }} {{Frontpage|author=David C Mason|title=Pandora's Gardener|rating=3|genre=Crime|summary= John Cranston is well adjusted and over her ex-husband Alec. She still dreams of hima gardener, although what he did before he became a gardener, yeshe claims, but it's so over! is classified. Just That is just as well really… guess who's at because he is about to be caught up in a criminal / spy / terrorist plot, where only he can save the door?day. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1760293814</amazonuk>0956180523

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Colin TaylorJester_Forever|title=The Life of Forever After: a Scilly Sergeantdark comedy|author=David Jester|rating=4.5|genre=TravelHorror|summary=Meet Michael Holland is a cocky and brash young man who dies and gets made the Isles offer of Scillyhis lifetime; immortality. (I know they should be called that – the author provides We follow Michael, a handy guide to the etiquette of their name, their nature grim reaper and locationhis friends, etc.Chip (a stoner tooth fairy) For our more distant readers, they're several chunks of granite rock out and Naff (a stoner in the Atlantic, where Cornwall is pointing, records department) as they grapple with just 2,200 permanent residents. They're big on tourism, their long lives and big finding a clean surface to sit 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 yearstheir flat. 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.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178475515X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Josie Lloyd and Emlyn Rees1683691172|title=William Shakespeare'Twas the Fight Before Christmas: A Parodys Much Ado About Mean Girls|author=Ian Doescher|rating=32.5

|summary=ItA long time ago, in a galaxy far away, all the Star Wars films were crunched up against Shakespeare, and the marriage seemed a perfectly suitable one. So much so – so easily did the plots and characters converse in Shakespearean dialogue, and behave with Shakespearean stage directions – that the producers tried again, with [[William Shakespeare's Christmas Eve and Mum has arranged everything. All she now has Get Thee Back to do is await the arrival of Future! by Ian Doescher|Back to the relatives and Future]] no less. And that worked. But simultaneously they put a real test out. A film I can't even really remember seeing was transcribed into the original Elizabethan lingo. A cult following I had never followed whatsoever was given the food shopping deliverybrand new, yet oh so ancient, dressing. Little does Mum know that Here was the true challenge – would I manage to enjoy this, based on little foreknowledge? Oh damn those two elements alone have shiny gold stars for letting the potential to ruin everything.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472125118</amazonuk>game away…

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ryan North168369094X|title=Romeo and/or JulietWilliam Shakespeare's Get Thee Back to the Future!|author=Ian Doescher|rating=34.5

|summary=For all those who think tragedy plots are too restricted and prescribedA long time ago, in a publishing house far away, read on. In these pages you too will see that Romeo had lots of options en route [[:Category:Ian Doescher|someone]] thought it wonderfully wacky to hitting rewrite the bottle. Likewisestory of Star Wars in Shakespearean pentameter, she could have turned away from her predestined path at no end of juncturescolliding two entirely different genres and styles in such a clever way they seemed perfectly suited. And to what result? WellIt was then duly repeated for all the other films in the main Star Wars cycle, happy marriage and a kid called Ben, because the leads have just banged peopleclearly someone's heads together and stopped buffing their quills ready for Episode Nine, the quarrelling, or Death by Tybalt (him) or a long life running an establishment curing murderous women, such as a Lady M (her). |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0356508536</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Gervase Phinn|title= The Virgin Mary's Got Nits|rating= 4of which became public knowledge the day before I write.5|genre= Humour|summary= Christmas in our house is In the time we tend to get on a plane and head to either sun or snowhiatus, anywhere that is farhowever, far away from the madness at home, last minute dashes effort has been made to see if the shops on Christmas Evesame shtick works with other texts, and food cupboard stockpiles that would imply supermarkets are shutting for a month, nor a mere 36 hoursto riff on other seemingly unlikely source materials in iambs. But I do remember And could we have anything more suitably unsuitable-seeming than Back to the feeling of Christmas when I was younger, back when it was magicalFuture, 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 its tales of those momentstime travel, bullying, and it took me right back to the wonder of Christmas as a parent/child.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444779400</amazonuk>strife like no other?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Kieran Crowley1473669065|title= Shoot|rating= 4|genre= Crime|summary= 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. The result is that what is billed as ''an F.X. Shepherd mystery'' with all the optimism of there being more to come has the poignancy of being, if not the last of a short line, certainly one of a few. F.X. Shepherd – he doesn't like his first name and prefers just "Shepherd" is, technically, 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 journalism, but I'm guessing one column a week doesn't pay much as a rule…which explains why ShepherdQueenie Malone'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. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783296518</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewParadise Hotel|author=Gray Jolliffe|title=The First Ever Christmas: And Who to BlameRuth Hogan

|summary=If I tell you a secretTilda returns to Brighton, will you promise not to tell anyone? Well, I really don't like Christmas: ittidy away the remains of her mother's my least favourite time of year and whilst some people count down life after her death. Whilst there, she returns to the day itselfParadise hotel, I look forward to that point when I a haven for eccentrics and misfits. A place where people can say be themselves, and let go of thoughts that it's all over for another yeartorment them elsewhere. It's all too commercialised Little wonder that Tilda cannot forgive her mother for mebanishing her as a child, with a coating from this place of faux religionwonder. I've never found it in With the least funny - that ishelp of Queenie Malone, until I found Gray Jolliffe's ''The First Ever Christmas: And Who's to Blame''. Amazinglycaring, I'd never encountered Gray Jolliffe eitherand gregarious, but I'm a convert to his skills as a cartoonist (if not Tilda begins to pick apart the idea of Christmas) after reading this collection of Christmas-themed cartoons from his archivetricky and uncertain relationship she had with her sometimes cruel and distant mother.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445663503</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jonathan Pugh1683690346|title=Pugh's New Year's ResolutionsThe Con Artist|author=Fred Van Lente|rating=4.5

|summary=If there's one thing that's Comic-Cons are a place of wonder and sanctuary for certainmany people, and when Comic book artist Mike Mason arrives at San Diego Comic-Con, ithe's looking for both that and sanctuary with other fans and creators, plus the world is changingchance of maybe, just maybe reuniting with his ex. We're dating online, we're communicating in ways that make email seem redundantHowever, and when we're shopping we just tell a website where and when it can be deliveredhis rival is found dead, and how much leeway they have Mike is forced to swap our wishes for whatever it is they do bring us. But those changes are also supposed navigate every dark corner of the con in order to be affecting us clear his name – we're supposed from cosplay flash mobs and intrusive fans to use a smart watch to tell us if we're moving or notzombie obstacle courses – Mike must prove his innocence and, we have to keep up with the latest fadsin doing so, 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 eatmay just unravel a dark secret behind a legendary industry creator.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780722885</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Luke Rhinehart1473669588|title= InvasionFalling Short|author=Lex Coulton|rating= 4.5|genre= Humour |summary=Super-intelligent furry aliens suddenly appear from another universe. And theyLex Coulton've come to earth to have fun. Alien Louie follows fisherman Billy Morton home one days debut novel is a story about mistakes, failures, and he and his family quickly come to love the playful alienrelationships. But when Louie starts using their computer to hack into government and corporate networksThe main protagonist, stealing millions from banks to give to othersFrances Pilgrim, they realise that Louie and his friends mean trouble. As Billy and his family begin is a roller coaster ride of fame and fortunesixth form English teacher who has recently fallen out with her best friend Jackson, as well as a ranking high on the FBI's most wanted list, the Government soon decides that these aliens are terrorists, work colleague and must be eliminated. Whilst the aliens are playing games they hope will help humans to see is grappling with the insanity increasingly eccentric behaviour of her mother. This relationship is complicated by the American political, economic and military systems, they soon come to realise that the Powers fact that Be donFrances't play games: they make wars father disappeared at sea when she was five years old. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785651757</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Rod Green1683690133|title=Only Fools My Lady's Choosing|author=Kitty Curran and Horses: The Peckham ArchivesLarissa Zageris

|genre=Entertainment Humour|summary=We You are in the world of one a lass of the country's most famous and well-loved sitcoms – even if it was sorttwenty-of killed off for Christmas 2003eight. Yes, there have been specials sincePlucky, penniless and more repeats to clog up in Regency-era London the BBC schedules than race is really pukka, but very few people failed on to succumb find a suitable suitor - or else doom yourself to its charms at one time or anotherlife as an eternal spinster. IAlong your journey, you'm sure there have been books before now celebrating the stonyll be accompanied by Lady Evangeline Youngblood -faced reception of ''that'' drop through the open bar hatcha 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''that'' chandelier scene, but this is much more meaty. Purporting ll have to be make the family archivesultimate decision between witty, found dumped in Nelson Mandela Housepretty and wealthy Sir Benedict Granville, the documents here were passed from pillar to postwholesome, from one council worker in a department with a clumsy acronym to anotherrugged and caring Captain Angus MacTaggart, from them to or the police – mad, bad and now here they are being published for their social history worthterrifyingly sexy Lord Garraway Craven. Will enough readers find them of worthWith orphans, werewolves, as long lost lovers and ancient Egyptian artefacts along the series quietly celebrates its 35th birthday?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849909245</amazonuk>way, it's clear this isn't going to be an easy decision...

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Mara WilsonStibbe_Xmas|title= Where Am I Now?: True Stories of Girlhood and Accidental FameAn Almost Perfect Christmas|author=Nina Stibbe|rating= 4.5|genre= AutobiographyHumour|summary= Mara Wilson has always felt a little young and a little out Christmas – the time of place: as the traditional trauma. You only child on a film set full of adults, have to think about the first daughter in turkey for that – once upon a house full of boys, time it was leaving it sat on the sole clinically depressed member of a cheerleading squaddownstairs loo to defrost overnight, a valley girl in New York and a neurotic in California, and an adult if that failed the world still remembers as a little girlhair-dryer shoved inside it treatment was your next best bet. Tackling everything from how she first learned about sex on the set of Nowadays it's all having to make sure it'Melrose Places suitably free-range and organic – but not too organic that you can go and visit it,'' and get too friendly with it to losing her mother at a young age, want to getting her first kiss (or was eat it kisses?) on a celebrity canoe trip. Christmas, to not being cute enough to make it in Hollywoodthough, these essays tell the story is of course also a time of one young womangreat boons. It's journey from accidental fame to relative obscuritycash in hand for a lot of plump people who can hire red suits and beards, but also illuminate it was always a universal struggle: learning godsend for postmen with all the thank-you letters to accept yourselfaunties you saw twice a decade that your parents made you write out in long-hand as a child, and figuring out who you are as for the makers of Meltis Newberry Fruits – well, did they even try and where you belong. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0143128221</amazonuk>sell them any other time of the year?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Tony StuartDoescher_Will|title= Writing LinesWilliam Shakespeare's the Force Doth Awaken: Star Wars Part the Seventh|author=Ian Doescher|rating= 4.5

|summary= George Gordon Wentworth (1946-2011) lived A long time ago, in a humdrum life. He galaxy far away, there was a barely adequate teacher in man called William Shakespeare, who was able to create a fairly world renowned independent school in Kent and kept a copious diary series of his quotidian existence. Most dramatic histories full of what he recorded was dross. Howevermachinations most foul, amongst all the utterly uninteresting tailings of his life there were some nuggets rulers most evil and rebellious heroes and grains to catch the attentionheroines most sturdy. Author Tony Stuart has created these amusing anecdotes, panning them out over twenty six episodes which give us You may or may not have noticed the best cinematic version 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 original stage play for ''The Force Doth Awaken'', but here at last we get the married couple the morning after their weddingactual script, to destroying a ski run; from appearing fullcomplete with annoying-frontal naked in a sheep-farmers' gazette different-ways-to triggering an air-sea rescue; Wentworth wasbefore droids anew, returning heroes from elsewhere in his oeuvre, blinkered and befuddledpeople keeping it in the family til it hurts. And if you need further encouragement, don't forget his audience only demanded three parts of Henry VI – here the subject series is so popular we're on to part seven – of these and so many more unlikely but highly amusing events.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1524634441</amazonuk>surely making this over twice as good…

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Graham FulbrightGoss_600|title=Driving MadDoctor Who: Maniacs, Morons Now We Are Six Hundred: A Collection of Time Lord Verse (Dr Who)|author=James Goss and the Advanced Motorist's ClubRussell T Davies|rating=34.5

|summary=I passed my driving test when John F Kennedy was in Consider the White House Doctor. Just how many birthday and I've recently had Christmas gifts must he have to hand out each year, were he to reapply keep in touch with even half of his companions? He would certainly need a few novelty gifts for my driving licence having achieved a venerable age. When I started driving the roads were kindersome of them, say, more forgiving places - or put another wayfor example, whimsical books of verse that pithily encapsulate the idiots were fewer life of a Time Lord and that of some of his friends and further betweenenemies. I don't know how long Graham Fulbright As luck would have it, he has been drivingthe space in his TARDIS to stock up in advance, but he certainly knows so my advice to him – sorry, her – would be to pop along to his motoring morons local Earth-based book emporium and in get himself ready. And if you''Driving Mad'' he brings us re working on a shorter timescale, with a fictional sample of their eccentricities. Wellshorter lifespan, and thinking perhaps just one gift season ahead, I'm well my advice is pretty certain that they're fictional - but these days you never know..much the same.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783062584</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mario GiordanoIngram_Kammie|title=Auntie Poldi and the Sicilian LionsConversations with Kammie|author=Annie Ingram

|genre=CrimeHumour|summary=Poldi had not long been widowed when she decided to move from Bavaria to Sicily with the intention It was something of drinking herself to death. She could, of course, have done this in Germany, but she felt that a sea view was essential. Once there, new friends, family already resident on the island relief when I encountered Annie Ingram and the corpse of a young man, his face blown off by a shotgun, whom she found on the local beach, intervened to give her life some meaningcocker spaniel Kammie. For a while she was a suspectYou see, but that (and her wig) were no obstacle Annie knows something which has been self-evident to her falling me for Commissario Vito Montana who was assigned to investigate the case. Assisting him (or having him assist her) came naturally to Poldi and before a long there was an investigative time: dogs are perfectly capable of communicating with humans and personal partnership. At least so far as Poldi was concerned.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908524693</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Grady Hendrix|title= My Best Friend's Exorcism|rating= 5|genre= Horror|summary=1988, Charleston, South Carolina. High school sophomores Abby and Gretchen have been best friends since fourth grade. But after an evening not just on a level of skinny-dipping goes disatrously wrong, Gretchen begins to actfood! walk! or play!...different. She's moody. She's irritable. And bizarre incidents keep happening whenever she's nearby. Abby's investigation leads her You do require extensive training to some startling discoveries - and by the time their story reaches its terrifying conclusionbecome fluent, the fate of Abby and Gretchen but most dogs will be determined by a single question: Is perfectly willing to give their friendship enough time to beat the devil?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1594748624</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Kevin MacNeil|title=The Brilliant and Forever|rating= 3.5|genre= Humour|summary= You know sometimes when someone tells a joke, everyone else laughs, teach you and all you're sat there wondering what was so funny?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846973376</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Christopher Fowler|title= Bryant and May: Strange Tide|rating= 3.5|genre= Crime|summary= The thirteenth outing for Bryant and May is looking very much like it will be their last. Arthur Bryant is on compassionate leave whilst tests are continuing, which are likely have to confirm that he do is suffering from Alzheimer'slisten. His condition is worsening almost by the day, memory lapses are morphing into full-scale hallucinations.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857523422</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Kevin Smith|title=The Voyage of the Dolphin|rating=5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=Dublin 1916Annie has studied hard: Among the unrest Kammie has trained her well and anti-British feeling worsened by the threat of conscription into a war seen as nothing pair have allowed us to do with the Irish, Trinity College faculty has other distractions. They'd like a trophy; the skeleton share some of an Irish 'giant' to be precisetheir conversations. The only glitch is that the main trophy contender, Bernard MacNeill's skeleton, is somewhere difficult to access and all seasoned explorers are otherwise engaged. There may be hope though. They turn to Fitzmaurice, a student not good enough for anything else. Fitzmaurice agrees, picking his friends Crozier and Rafferty to go with him. So… ''Gentlemen, lace up your strongest boots and pack your warmest underwear – we're all off to the bloody Arctic!'' Whether battle cry or epitaph, three men and a dog… and an iguana… are going anyway.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910124826</amazonuk>|amazonus=<amazonus>1910124826</amazonus>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tony HawksHarris_Glass|title=Once Upon a Time in the West… CountryThe Breaking of Liam Glass|author=Charles Harris

|summary=In which Spadge researches Britain's top ten fears Teenager Liam Glass is mugged and faces them all over stabbed yards from his Camden flat. As the course of a year. We're quite a fearful societyboy lies comatose, you know. And desperate journalist Jason Worthington scrabbles for the things we fear most areinside scoop, in order: heights (acrophobia)tired police officer Andy Rockham searches for a missing tape, snakes (ophidiophobia)harried politician Jamila Hasan fights for re-election, public speaking (glossophobia)distraught mother Katrina Glass waits by her son, spiders (arachnophobia)and gym-owner Royland simply finds himself in the wrong place at the wrong time. We follow this host of ensemble characters in a bleak, small spaces (claustrophobia), mice (musophobia), needles (trypanophobia), flying (pteromerhanophobia), crowds (agoraphobia) and clowns (coulrophobia)kaleidoscopic satire of modern media.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0993429904</amazonuk>