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[[Category:New Reviews|Humour]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ian DoescherStephen Clarke|title=William Shakespeare's the Force Doth Awaken: Star Wars Part the SeventhThe Spy Who Inspired Me|rating=4.5|genre=Science General Fiction|summary=A long time ago, in This is a galaxy far awayspoof spy story, there was that isn't about James Bond. Or Ian Fleming. But it features a man called William ShakespeareIan Lemming, who was able to create a series of dramatic histories full of machinations most foul, rulers most evil dresses well and rebellious heroes 'likes the ladies' and heroines most sturdy. You may or may not have noticed who works for the cinematic version of his original stage play for ''The Force Doth Awaken''secret service, but here at last we get in the actual script, complete planning side of things more than the active service. Lemming finds himself put on a mission with annoying-in-different-ways-to-before droids anewa female spy called Margaux, returning heroes from elsewhere and the pair end up stranded in his oeuvreNormandy, and people keeping it with Margaux on a desperate mission to unearth traitors in the family til it hurts. And if you need further encouragementresistance network, don't forget his audience only demanded three parts of Henry VI – here the series is so popular we're on and Lemming desperately trying to part seven – surely making this over twice as good…keep up with her!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>159474985X</amazonuk>2952163855

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=James Goss Afonso Cruz and Russell T DaviesRahul Bery (translator)|title=Doctor Who: Now We Are Six Hundred: A Collection of Time Lord Verse (Dr Who)Kokoschka's Doll|rating=42.5|genre=Children's Rhymes and Verse Literary Fiction|summary=Consider Well, this looked very much like a book I could love from the Doctorget-go, which is why I picked my review copy up and flipped pages over several times before actually reading any of it. Just how many birthday and Christmas gifts must he have I found things to hand out potentially delight me each yeartime – a weird section in the middle on darker stock paper, were he to keep a chapter whose number was in touch with even half of his companions? He would certainly need a few novelty gifts for some of themthe 20, say000s, for exampleletters used as narrative form, whimsical books of verse that pithily encapsulate and so on. It intrigued with the life of subterranean voice a Time Lord and man hears in wartorn Dresden that what little I knew of some of his friends and enemies. As luck would have itmentioned, he has the space in his TARDIS to stock up in advance, so my advice to him – sorry, her – would be to pop along to his local Earth-based book emporium and get himself readytoo. And if But you're working on a shorter timescale, ve seen the star rating that comes with a shorter lifespanthis review, and thinking perhaps just one gift season aheadcan tell that if love was on these pages, well my advice is pretty much the sameit was not actually caused by them. So what happened?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1785942719</amazonuk>1529402697

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Annie IngramB08KKQ85FN|title=Conversations with KammieBut Never For Lunch|author=Sandra Aragona

|genre=PetsShort Stories|summary=It was something ''If a woman approaching the menopause can be likened to a Rottweiler in lipstick, an Ambassador nearing retirement resembles a pampered peacock about to be released into the company of a relief when I encountered Annie Ingram and her cocker spaniel Kammie. You seecarrion crows or, more to the point, Annie knows something which has been self-evident about to me for a long time: dogs are perfectly capable discover the real world of communicating with humans bus timetables and not just on a level of paying his own gas bills.''food!' You don't get many better opening sentences than that, do you? We first met His Excellency and The Ambassador''walk!'' or ''play!''. You do require extensive training s Wife in [[Sorting the Priorities: Ambassadress and Beagle Survive Diplomacy by Sandra Aragona|Sorting the Priorities]] and we learned what it was like to become fluent, be moved around countries like accompanying baggage by the Italian Government but most dogs will be perfectly willing to give their the time has come for HE to teach you retires and all you have for Sandra Aragona to do is listenbecome The Wife of Former Ambassador... Annie has studied hard: Kammie has trained her well They have left The Career and settled in Rome. Well 'settled' rather overstates the pair have allowed us to share some situation and their dog, Beagle, has no intention of their conversationsslowing down any time soon, despite being sixteen and deaf.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785451995</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Charles HarrisB08GFSK2WZ|title= The Breaking Karma Trap|author=Lisette Boyd|rating=4|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=George Jackson is thirty-three years old, absolutely gorgeous to look at - and single. She's not had sex for eight months and she's stuck in the karma trap: an awful lot of Liam Glassbad luck is being visited on her and she has a real talent for attracting drama. Her life's chaotic: she dealt with the leak from the shower by putting something down at the bottom of the 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 pervy postman. She only has to take her mother's 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 office.}} {{Frontpage|author=David C Mason|title=Pandora's Gardener|rating= 3

|summary= A flawed but reasonably entertaining swipe at modern mediaJohn Cranston is a gardener, although what he did before he became a gardener, he claims, is classified. There's plenty here That is just as well because he is about to likebe caught up in a criminal / spy / terrorist plot, and plenty not to. But good structure and scramjet pace keep this one flying to where only he can save the final pageday.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1908943823</amazonuk>0956180523

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Fred Van LenteJester_Forever|title= Ten Dead ComediansForever After: A Murder Mysterya dark comedy|author=David Jester|rating= 4|genre= HumourHorror|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 the archetypal comic stereotypes: Steve, the washed-up has-been who has fallen far from grim reaper and his early days; Zoefriends, the rising female star with Chip (a new stand-up special coming soon; Dante, who went from being stoner tooth fairy) and Naff (a kid on the streets to the hardest working road comic stoner in the business; Oliver, the child-like prop comic who can't get any respect from his peers; Janet, the insult comic who is past her prime; TJ, the nightly variety show host records department) as they grapple with a reputation for harassing his female colleagues their long lives and guest acts; Ruby, the ultra-feminist YouTuber and Blogger with finding a chip clean surface to sit on her shoulder; and William, whose redneck character ''Billy the Contractor'' is a far cry from his real personality as a posh millionairein their flat. Of course, all nine agree because ''when God almighty walks down on a beam of light and asks for your help, what the hell else are you going to say?''|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1594749744</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1683691172|title=William Shakespeare's Much Ado About Mean Girls|author=S Lynn ScottIan Doescher|rating=2.5|titlegenre=Humour|summary=ElizabethA 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 [[WilliamShakespeare's Get Thee Back to the Future! by Ian Doescher|Back to the 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. and MeA cult following I had never followed whatsoever was given the brand new, yet oh so ancient, dressing. Here was the true challenge – would I manage to enjoy this, based on little foreknowledge? Oh damn those shiny gold stars for letting the game away…}}{{Frontpage|isbn=168369094X|title=William Shakespeare's Get Thee Back to the Future!|author=Ian Doescher

|summary=Ally is an ordinary woman with teenage childrenA long time ago, in a husband publishing house far away, [[:Category:Ian Doescher|someone]] thought it wonderfully wacky to rewrite the story of Star Wars in Shakespearean pentameter, colliding two entirely different genres and styles in such a jobclever way they seemed perfectly suited. Then comes It was then duly repeated for all the day when ordinariness flies out of other films in the window. It's not a coincidence that itmain Star Wars cycle, and clearly someone's buffing their quills ready for Episode Nine, the title of which became public knowledge the same day she finds Queen Elizabeth before I in write. In the hiatus, however, the effort has been made to see if the pantry same shtick works with other texts, and the Bard of Avon to riff on other seemingly unlikely source materials in her bathiambs. What's she going And could we have anything more suitably unsuitable-seeming than Back to do? Wellthe Future, with its tales of time travel, bullying, Elizabeth and Will have their own ideas about that!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1788037006<parent/amazonuk>child strife like no other?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= E G Rodford1473669065|title= The SurgeonQueenie Malone's Case: George Kocharyan Mystery 2|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>}}{{newreviewParadise Hotel|author=Toni Jordan|title=Our Tiny, Useless HeartsRuth Hogan

|genre=Women's FictionHumour|summary=As predicted by Caroline and Janice's Tilda returns to Brighton, to tidy away the remains of her mother on Caroline and Henry's wedding daylife after her death. Whilst there, their marriage is overshe returns to the Paradise hotel, albeit 15 years a haven for eccentrics and two daughters further along than predictedmisfits. IndeedA place where people can be themselves, this is definitely not a good weekend for Janice to be babysitting at Caroline's house. There's the split and the awkwardness let go of the girls' schoolteacher being the other woman thoughts that torment them elsewhere. Little wonder that Tilda cannot forgive her mother for banishing her as a startchild, from this place of wonder. Then there's that mistaken identity moment involving With the neighbours. At least Janice is well adjusted and over her ex-husband Alec. She still dreams help of himQueenie Malone, yescaring, but it's so over! Just as well really… guess who's at and gregarious, Tilda begins to pick apart the door?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1760293814</amazonuk>tricky and uncertain relationship she had with her sometimes cruel and distant mother.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Colin Taylor1683690346|title=The Life of a Scilly Sergeant|rating=4.5|genre=TravelCon Artist|summary=Meet the Isles of Scilly. (I know they should be called that – the author provides a handy guide to 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.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178475515X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Josie Lloyd and Emlyn Rees|title='Twas the Fight Before Christmas: A ParodyFred Van Lente|rating=3.54

|summary=ItComic-Cons are a place of wonder and sanctuary for many people, and when Comic book artist Mike Mason arrives at San Diego Comic-Con, he's Christmas Eve looking for both that and Mum has arranged everythingsanctuary with other fans and creators, plus the chance of maybe, just maybe reuniting with his ex. All she now has However, when his rival is found dead, Mike is forced to do is await the arrival navigate every dark corner of the relatives con in order to clear his name – from cosplay flash mobs and the food shopping delivery. Little does Mum know that those two elements alone have the potential intrusive fans to ruin everythingzombie obstacle courses – Mike must prove his innocence and, in doing so, may just unravel a dark secret behind a legendary industry creator.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472125118</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ryan North1473669588|title=Romeo and/or JulietFalling Short|author=Lex Coulton|rating=3.54

|summary=For all those who think tragedy plots are too restricted Lex Coulton's debut novel is a story about mistakes, failures, and prescribedrelationships. The main protagonist, read on. In these pages you too will see that Romeo had lots of options en route to hitting the bottle. LikewiseFrances Pilgrim, she could have turned away from is a sixth form English teacher who has recently fallen out with her predestined path at no end best friend Jackson, a work colleague and is grappling with the increasingly eccentric behaviour of juncturesher mother. And to what result? Well, happy marriage and a kid called Ben, because This relationship is complicated by the leads have just banged peoplefact that Frances's heads together and stopped the quarrelling, or Death by Tybalt (him) or a long life running an establishment curing murderous women, such as a Lady M (her)father disappeared at sea when she was five years old. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0356508536</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Gervase Phinn1683690133|title= The Virgin MaryMy Lady's Got NitsChoosing|ratingauthor= 4.5|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. 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, Kitty Curran and it took me right back to the wonder of Christmas as a child.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444779400</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Kieran Crowley|title= ShootLarissa Zageris|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 Shepherd'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>}}{{newreview|author=Gray Jolliffe|title=The First Ever Christmas: And Who to Blame|rating=5

|summary=If I tell you You are a lass of twenty-eight. Plucky, penniless and in Regency-era London the race is on to find a secretsuitable suitor - or else doom yourself to life as an eternal spinster. Along your journey, will you promise not 'll be accompanied by Lady Evangeline Youngblood - a fiesty noble eager to tell anyone? Wellsave you from a life alone, I really don't like Christmas: and fired by a rogueish sense for adventure. When itcomes to suitors though, you's my least favourite time of year ll have to make the ultimate decision between witty, pretty and wealthy Sir Benedict Granville, wholesome, rugged and whilst some people count down to caring Captain Angus MacTaggart, or the day itselfmad, I look forward to that point when I can say that it's all over for another yearbad and terrifyingly sexy Lord Garraway Craven. It's all too commercialised for meWith orphans, werewolves, with a coating of faux religion. I've never found it in long lost lovers and ancient Egyptian artefacts along the least funny - that isway, until I found Gray Jolliffeit's clear this isn''The First Ever Christmas: And Who's t going to Blame''be an easy decision.. 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.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445663503</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jonathan PughStibbe_Xmas|title=Pugh's New Year's ResolutionsAn Almost Perfect Christmas|author=Nina Stibbe

|summary=If there's one thing Christmas – the time of traditional trauma. You only have to think about the turkey for that's for certain– once upon a time it was leaving it sat on the downstairs loo to defrost overnight, it's and if that failed the world is changinghair-dryer shoved inside it treatment was your next best bet. WeNowadays it're dating online, wes all having to make sure it're communicating in ways s suitably free-range and organic – but not too organic that make email seem redundant, and when we're shopping we just tell a website where you can go and when visit it can be delivered, and how much leeway they have get too friendly with it to want to swap our wishes for whatever eat it . Christmas, though, is they do bring usof course also a time of great boons. But those changes are also supposed to be affecting us – weIt're supposed to use s cash in hand for a smart watch to tell us if we're moving or notlot of plump people who can hire red suits and beards, we have to keep up it was always a godsend for postmen with all the latest fadsthank-you letters to aunties you saw twice a decade that your parents made you write out in long-hand as a child, and we're supposed to prick our ears up as for the makers of Meltis Newberry Fruits – well, did they even try and take note when sell them any other time of the proverbial 'they' change their minds about what we're supposed to eat.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780722885</amazonuk>year?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Luke RhinehartDoescher_Will|title= Invasion|rating= 4.5|genre= Humour |summary=Super-intelligent furry aliens suddenly appear from another universe. And they've come to earth to have fun. Alien Louie follows fisherman Billy Morton home one day, 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 networks, stealing millions from banks to give to others, they realise that Louie and his friends mean trouble. As Billy and his family begin a roller coaster ride of fame and fortune, as well as a ranking high on the FBIWilliam Shakespeare's most wanted list, the Government soon decides that these aliens are terrorists, and must be eliminated. Whilst the aliens are playing games they hope will help humans to see the insanity of the American political, economic and military systems, they soon come to realise that the Powers that Be don't play gamesForce Doth Awaken: they make war. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785651757</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Rod Green|title=Only Fools and Horses: The Peckham Archives|rating=4|genre=Entertainment |summary=We are in the world of one of the country's most famous and well-loved sitcoms – even if it was sort-of killed off for Christmas 2003. Yes, there have been specials since, and more repeats to clog up Star Wars Part the BBC schedules than is really pukka, but very few people failed to succumb to its charms at one time or another. I'm sure there have been books before now celebrating the stony-faced reception of ''that'' drop through the open bar hatch, and ''that'' chandelier scene, but this is much more meaty. Purporting to be the family archives, found dumped in Nelson Mandela House, the documents here were passed from pillar to post, from one council worker in a department with a clumsy acronym to another, from them to the police – and now here they are being published for their social history worth. Will enough readers find them of worth, as the series quietly celebrates its 35th birthday?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849909245</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Mara Wilson|title= Where Am I Now?: True Stories of Girlhood and Accidental Fame|rating= 5|genre= Autobiography|summary= Mara Wilson has always felt a little young and a little out of place: 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, a valley girl in New York and a neurotic in California, and an adult the world still remembers as a little girl. Tackling everything from how she first learned about sex on the set of ''Melrose Place,'' to losing her mother at a young age, to getting her first kiss (or was it kisses?) on a celebrity canoe trip, 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. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0143128221</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewSeventh|author= Tony Stuart|title= Writing LinesIan 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 It was something of a relief when I encountered Annie Ingram and her cocker spaniel Kammie. You see, Annie knows something which has been widowed when she decided self-evident to move from Bavaria to Sicily me for a long time: dogs are perfectly capable of communicating with the intention humans and not just on a level of drinking herself food! walk! or play!. You do require extensive training to death. She could, of course, have done this in Germanybecome fluent, but she felt that a sea view was essential. Once there, new friends, family already resident on the island and the corpse of a young man, his face blown off by a shotgun, whom she found on the local beach, intervened most dogs will be perfectly willing to give her life some meaning. For a while she was a suspect, but that (their time to teach you and her wig) were no obstacle all you have to do is listen. Annie has studied hard: Kammie has trained her falling for Commissario Vito Montana who was assigned to investigate well and the case. Assisting him (or having him assist her) came naturally pair have allowed us to Poldi and before long there was an investigative and personal partnershipshare some of their conversations. At least so far as Poldi was concerned.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908524693</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|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 of skinny-dipping goes disatrously wrong, 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 - and by the time their story reaches its terrifying conclusion, the fate of Abby and Gretchen will be determined by a single question: Is their friendship enough to beat the devil?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1594748624</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|authorisbn= Kevin MacNeilHarris_Glass|title=The Brilliant and Forever|rating= 3.5|genre= Humour|summary= You know sometimes when someone tells a joke, everyone else laughs, and 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 to confirm that he is suffering from Alzheimer's. 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 Breaking of the Dolphin|rating=5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=Dublin 1916: Among the unrest and anti-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. They'd like a trophy; the skeleton of an Irish 'giant' to be precise. 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>}}{{newreviewLiam Glass|author=Tony Hawks|title=Once Upon a Time in the West… CountryCharles Harris

|genre=TravelHumour|summary=I have often complained in a jokey voice to my partner about life in the sticks, Teenager Liam Glass is mugged and the way she moved me stabbed yards from an inner-city his Camden flat to slumming it in . As the suburbs with fewer bussesboy lies comatose, no takeaways within walking-and-keeping-food-hot distancedesperate journalist Jason Worthington scrabbles for the inside scoop, and no 'Polish' shops tired police officer Andy Rockham searches 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 themmissing tape, where slugs are a lot more of a problem harried politician Jamila Hasan fights for the wannabe lettucere-grower than they are for the metropolitan commuterelection, distraught mother Katrina Glass waits by her son, 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, bruisegym-inducing wreck if you're owner Royland simply finds himself in the wrong gender place 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 surewrong time. But beyond sounding like a letch, what can I say about We follow 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 host of all things ensemble characters 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 childbleak, but now that I reread them I can't help but wonder why, because they are so full kaleidoscopic satire of hilarious jokes that I definitely wouldn't have understood when I was youngermodern media. 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>