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[[Category:New Reviews|Humour]]__NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{Frontpage|class-"wikitable" cellpaddingauthor="15" <!-- INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE--> <!-- Curran -->Stephen Clarke|-title=The Spy Who Inspired Me| stylerating="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|4[[image:1683690133.jpg|linkgenre=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1683690133/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] General Fiction| stylesummary="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[My LadyThis is a spoof spy story, that isn's Choosing by Kitty Curran and Larissa Zageris]]=== [[image:4start about James Bond. Or Ian Fleming.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Humour|Humour]], [[:Category:Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]] You are But it features a lass of twenty eight. Pluckyman called Ian Lemming, penniless who dresses well and in Regency era London 'likes the race is on to find a suitable suitor - or else doom yourself to life as an eternal spinster. Along your journey youladies'll be accompanied by Lady Evangeline Youngblood - a fiesty noble eager to save you from a life alone, and fired by a rogueish sense who works for adventure. When it comes to suitors thoughthe secret service, you'll have to make but in the ultimate decision between witty, pretty and wealthy Sir Benedict Granville, wholesome, rugged and caring Captain Angus MacTaggart, or planning side of things more than the mad, bad and terrifyingly sexy Lord Garraway Cravenactive service. With orphans Lemming finds himself put on a mission with a female spy called Margaux, werewolves, long lost lovers and ancient Egyptian artifcats along the waypair end up stranded in Normandy, it's clear this isn't going with Margaux on a desperate mission to be an easy decision... [[My Lady's Choosing by Kitty Curran unearth traitors in the resistance network, and Larissa Zageris|Full Review]] <Lemming desperately trying to keep up with her!-- Jester -->|-| styleisbn="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|2952163855[[image:Jester_Forever.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1510704361?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1510704361]]}}{{Frontpage | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Forever After: a dark comedy by David Jester]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|linkauthor=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Paranormal|Paranormal]], [[:Category:Horror|Horror]], [[:Category:Fantasy|Fasntasy]] Michael Holland is a cocky and brash young man who dies and gets made the offer of his lifetime; immortality. We follow Michael, a grim reaper and his friends Chip (a stoner tooth fairy) Afonso Cruz and Naff Rahul Bery (a stoner in the records departmenttranslator) as they grapple with their long lives and finding a clean surface to sit on in their flat. [[Forever After: a dark comedy by David Jester|Full Review]] <!-- Stibbe -->|-| styletitle="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|Kokoschka's Doll[[image:Stibbe_Xmas.jpg|left|linkrating=https://www.amazon.co2.uk/gp/product/0241309824?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=0241309824]] 5| stylegenre="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|Literary Fiction===[[An Almost Perfect Christmas by Nina Stibbe]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|linksummary=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Humour|Humour]]Well, [[:Category:Short Stories|Short Stories]] Christmas – the time of traditional trauma. You only have to think about the turkey for that – once upon this looked very much like a time it was leaving it sat on book I could love from the downstairs loo to defrost overnight, and if that failed the hair-dryer shoved inside it treatment was your next best bet. Nowadays it's all having to make sure it's suitably freeget-range and organic – but not too organic that you can go and visit it, which is why I picked my review copy up and get too friendly with flipped pages over several times before actually reading any of it . I found things to want to eat it. Christmas, though, is of course also a potentially delight me each time of great boons. It's cash in hand for a lot of plump people who can hire red suits and beards, it was always a godsend for postmen with all the thank-you letters to aunties you saw twice – a decade that your parents made you write out weird section in long-hand as a child, and as for the makers of Meltis Newberry Fruits – well, did they even try and sell them any other time of the year? [[An Almost Perfect Christmas by Nina Stibbe|Full Review]] <!-- Doescher -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Doescher_Will.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/159474985X?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=159474985X]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[William Shakespeare's the Force Doth Awaken: Star Wars Part the Seventh by Ian Doescher]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Science Fiction|Science Fiction]], [[:Category:Humour|Humour]] A long time agomiddle on darker stock paper, in a galaxy far away, there chapter whose number was a man called William Shakespeare, who was able to create a series of dramatic histories full of machinations most foul, rulers most evil and rebellious heroes and heroines most sturdy. You may or may not have noticed in the cinematic version of his original stage play for ''The Force Doth Awaken''20, but here at last we get the actual script000s, complete with annoying-in-different-ways-to-before droids anew, returning heroes from elsewhere in his oeuvreletters used as narrative form, and people 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 series is so popular we're on to part seven – surely making this over twice as good… [[William Shakespeare's the Force Doth Awaken: Star Wars Part the Seventh by Ian Doescher|Full Review]] <!-- Goss -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Goss_600.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1785942719?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1785942719]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Doctor Who: Now We Are Six Hundred: A Collection of Time Lord Verse (Dr Who) by James Goss and Russell T Davies]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Children's Rhymes and Verse|Children's Rhymes and Verse]], [[:Category:Science Fiction|Science Fiction]], [[:Category:Humour|Humour]] Consider the Doctor. Just how many birthday and Christmas gifts must he have to hand out each year, were he to keep in touch It intrigued with even half of his companions? He would certainly need a few novelty gifts for some of them, say, for example, whimsical books of verse that pithily encapsulate 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 same. [[Doctor Who: Now We Are Six Hundred: A Collection of Time Lord Verse (Dr Who) it was not actually caused by James Goss and Russell T Davies|Full Review]] <!-- Ingram -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Ingram_Kammiethem.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1785451995 So what happened?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1785451995]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Conversations with Kammie by Annie Ingram]]==isbn=1529402697}}[[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Pets|Pets]], [[:Category:Humour|Humour]] It was something of a relief when I encountered Annie Ingram and her cocker spaniel Kammie. You see, Annie knows something which has been self-evident to me for a long time: dogs are perfectly capable of communicating with humans and not just on a level of food!, walk! or play!. You do require extensive training to become fluent, but most dogs will be perfectly willing to give their time to teach you and all you have to do is listen. Annie has studied hard: Kammie has trained her well and the pair have allowed us to share some of their conversations. [[Conversations with Kammie by Annie Ingram|Full Review]] <!-- Harris -->|-Frontpage| styleisbn="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|B08KKQ85FN[[image:Harris_Glass.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1908943823/ref=nosim?tagtitle=thebookbag-21]] But Never For Lunch| styleauthor="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|Sandra Aragona===[[The Breaking of Liam Glass by Charles Harris]]=== [[image:3star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime|Crime]], [[:Category:Humour|Humour]] Teenager Liam Glass is mugged and stabbed yards from his Camden flat. As the boy lies comatose, desperate journalist Jason Worthington scrabbles for the inside scoop, tired police officer Andy Rockham searches for a missing tape, harried politician Jamila Hasan fights for re-election, distraught mother Katrina Glass waits by her son, 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, kaleidoscopic satire of modern media. [[The Breaking of Liam Glass by Charles Harris|Full Review]] <!-- LENTE -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|4[[image:Lente_10.jpg|linkgenre=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1683690222/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] Short Stories| stylesummary="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Ten Dead Comedians: A Murder Mystery by Fred Van Lente]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Humour|Humour]] 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: Stevecarrion crows or, more to the washed-up has-been who has fallen far from his early days; Zoepoint, the rising female star with a new stand-up special coming soon; Dante, 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 can't get any respect from his peers; Janet, the insult comic who is past her prime; TJ, the nightly variety show host with a reputation for harassing his female colleagues and guest acts; Ruby, the ultra-feminist YouTuber and Blogger with a chip on her shoulder; and William, whose redneck character ''Billy the Contractor'' is a far cry from his real personality as a posh millionaire. Of course, all nine agree because ''when God almighty walks down on a beam world of light bus timetables and asks for your help, what the hell else are you going to say?'' [[Ten Dead Comedians: A Murder Mystery by Fred Van Lente|Full Review]] <!-- Scott -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Scott_Eliz.jpg|link=http://wwwpaying his own gas bills.amazon.co.uk/dp/1788037006/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Elizabeth, William... and Me by S Lynn Scott]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Humour|Humour]] 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! [[Elizabeth, William... and Me by S Lynn Scott|Full Review]] 

<!-- DO NOT REMOVE ANYTHING BELOW THIS LINE -->|} {{newreview|author= E G Rodford|title= You don't get many better opening sentences than that, do you? We first met His Excellency and The SurgeonAmbassador's CaseWife in [[Sorting the Priorities: George Kocharyan Mystery 2Ambassadress and Beagle Survive Diplomacy by Sandra Aragona|rating= 4|genre= Crime |summary=In Sorting the Priorities]] and we learned what it was like to be moved around countries like accompanying baggage by the Italian Government but the second instalment of this series, Private Investigator George Kocharyan time has been hired by a well-known local man come for HE to retires and for Sandra Aragona to track down some missing valuablesbecome The Wife of Former Ambassador... They have left The Career and settled in Rome. Bill Galbraith, a world-famous surgeon at Cambridge Well 's Addenbrookesettled's Hospital who hosts a popular medical television programmerather overstates the situation and their dog, Beagle, has had his briefcase stolen by his live-in domestic servant, Aurora. According to Galbraith, this briefcase contains confidential notes concerning an important patient no intention 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 knowslowing down any time soon, he's about to enter a world of deceit despite being sixteen and dysfunctiondeaf.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178565005X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Toni JordanB08GFSK2WZ|title=Our Tiny, Useless HeartsThe Karma Trap|author=Lisette Boyd|rating=54

|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 split and leak from the 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}}{{Frontpage|isbn=Jester_Forever|title=Forever After: a dark comedy|author=David Jester|rating=4|genre=Horror|summary=Michael Holland is a cocky and brash young man who dies and gets made the offer of his lifetime; immortality. We follow Michael, a grim reaper and his friends, Chip (a stoner tooth fairy) and Naff (a stoner in the records department) as they grapple with their long lives and finding a clean surface to sit on in their flat.

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1683691172|title=William Shakespeare's Much Ado About Mean Girls|author=Colin TaylorIan Doescher|rating=2.5|genre=Humour|summary=A 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 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. A 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=The Life of a Scilly SergeantWilliam Shakespeare's Get Thee Back to the Future!|author=Ian Doescher

|genre=TravelHumour|summary=Meet A long time ago, in a publishing house far away, [[:Category:Ian Doescher|someone]] thought it wonderfully wacky to rewrite the Isles story of ScillyStar Wars in Shakespearean pentameter, colliding two entirely different genres and styles in such a clever way they seemed perfectly suited. (I know they should be called that – It was then duly repeated for all the author provides a handy guide to other films in the etiquette of their namemain Star Wars cycle, and clearly someone's buffing their nature and locationquills ready for Episode Nine, etcthe title of which became public knowledge the day before I write.) For our more distant readers, they're several chunks of granite rock out in In the Atlantichiatus, where Cornwall is pointinghowever, the effort has been made to see if the same shtick works with just 2,200 permanent residents. They're big on tourismother texts, and big to riff on growing flowers other seemingly unlikely source materials in the tropical climate the Gulf Stream bequeaths them – although the weather is bad enough to turn any car to a rust bucket within yearsiambs. They're so wee, and so idyllicAnd could we have anything more suitably unsuitable-seemingthan Back to the Future, 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 with its tales of time. And one of them in recent years has been Colin Taylortravel, who has done his official duty – alongside maintaining a well-known online existencebullying, which has brought to life all the whimsical comedy of his work.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178475515X<and parent/amazonuk>child strife like no other?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Josie Lloyd and Emlyn Rees1473669065|title=Queenie Malone'Twas the Fight Before Christmas: A Parodys Paradise Hotel|author=Ruth Hogan|rating=3.5

|summary=ItTilda returns to Brighton, to tidy away the remains of her mother's Christmas Eve and Mum has arranged everythinglife after her death. All Whilst there, she now has returns to do is await the arrival Paradise hotel, a haven for eccentrics and misfits. A place where people can be themselves, and let go of the relatives and the food shopping deliverythoughts that torment them elsewhere. Little does Mum know wonder that those two elements alone have Tilda cannot forgive her mother for banishing her as a child, from this place of wonder. With the potential help of Queenie Malone, caring, and gregarious, Tilda begins to ruin everythingpick apart the tricky and uncertain relationship she had with her sometimes cruel and distant mother.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472125118</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ryan North1683690346|title=Romeo and/or JulietThe Con Artist|author=Fred Van Lente|rating=3.54

|summary=For all those who think tragedy plots Comic-Cons are too restricted a place of wonder and sanctuary for many people, and prescribedwhen Comic book artist Mike Mason arrives at San Diego Comic-Con, read on. In these pages you too will see he's looking for both that Romeo had lots and sanctuary with other fans and creators, plus the chance of options en route maybe, just maybe reuniting with his ex. However, when his rival is found dead, Mike is forced to hitting navigate every dark corner of the bottle. Likewise, she could have turned away con in order to clear his name – from her predestined path at no end of junctures. And cosplay flash mobs and intrusive fans to what result? Wellzombie obstacle courses – Mike must prove his innocence and, happy marriage and a kid called Benin doing so, because the leads have may just banged people's heads together and stopped the quarrelling, or Death by Tybalt (him) or unravel a long life running an establishment curing murderous women, such as dark secret behind a Lady M (her)legendary industry creator. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0356508536</amazonuk>

{{Frontpage<!-- Phinn -->|isbn=1473669588*[[image:Phinn_Virgin.jpg|lefttitle=Falling Short|linkauthor=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1444779400/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]Lex Coulton|rating===[[The Virgin Mary's Got Nits by Gervase Phinn]]===4[[image:4.5star.jpg|linkgenre=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Humour|Humour]], [[:Category:Anthologies|Anthologies]] Christmas in our house summary=Lex Coulton's debut novel is the time we tend to get on a plane and head to either sun or snowstory about mistakes, anywhere that is farfailures, far away from the madness at homeand relationships. The main protagonist, last minute dashes to the shops on Christmas EveFrances Pilgrim, and food cupboard stockpiles that would imply supermarkets are shutting for is a monthsixth form English teacher who has recently fallen out with her best friend Jackson, nor a mere 36 hours. But I do remember work colleague and is grappling with the feeling increasingly eccentric behaviour 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 partiesher mother. This book relationship is an anthology of those moments, and it took me right back to complicated by the wonder of Christmas as a child. [[The Virgin Maryfact that Frances's Got Nits by Gervase Phinn|Full Review]]<br>father disappeared at sea when she was five years old.}}{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Kieran Crowley1683690133|title= ShootMy Lady's Choosing|author=Kitty Curran and Larissa Zageris|rating= 4|genre= CrimeHumour|summary= I make something of You are a habit lass of being late to discover good writerstwenty-eight. Plucky, penniless and in this case getting Regency-era London the race is on to find a suitable suitor - or else doom yourself to Crowley after he is no longer with us. The result is that what is billed life as ''an Feternal spinster.X. Shepherd mysteryAlong your journey, you'' with all the optimism of there being more ll be accompanied by Lady Evangeline Youngblood - a fiesty noble eager to come has the poignancy of being, if not the last of save you from a short linelife alone, certainly one of and fired by a fewrogueish sense for adventure. F.X. Shepherd – he doesnWhen it comes to suitors though, you't like his first name ll have to make the ultimate decision between witty, pretty and wealthy Sir Benedict Granville, wholesome, rugged and prefers just "Shepherd" iscaring Captain Angus MacTaggart, technicallyor the mad, a columnistbad and terrifyingly sexy Lord Garraway Craven. He's been sacked by one New York newspaper With orphans, werewolves, long lost lovers and is writing a weekly column for another. I don't know much about journalismancient Egyptian artefacts along the way, but Iit'm guessing one column a week doesns clear this isn'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 going to turn in some genuine journalism as well: front page, seat of your pants stuffbe an easy decision... |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783296518</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Gray JolliffeStibbe_Xmas|title=The First Ever An Almost Perfect Christmas: And Who to Blame|author=Nina Stibbe|rating=4.5

|summary=If I tell you a secret, will you promise not to tell anyone? Well, I really don't like Christmas: it's my least favourite – the time of year and whilst some people count down traditional trauma. You only have to think about the turkey for that – once upon a time it was leaving it sat on the day itselfdownstairs loo to defrost overnight, I look forward to that point when I can say and if that failed the hair-dryer shoved inside it treatment was your next best bet. Nowadays it's all over for another year. Ithaving to make sure it's all suitably free-range and organic – but not too commercialised for meorganic 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 coating time of faux religiongreat boons. IIt've never found s cash in hand for a lot of plump people who can hire red suits and beards, it in was always a godsend for postmen with all the least funny thank- that is, until I found Gray Jolliffe's ''The First Ever Christmas: And Who's you letters to Blame''. Amazingly, I'd never encountered Gray Jolliffe either, but I'm aunties you saw twice a convert to his skills decade that your parents made you write out in long-hand as a cartoonist (if not to child, and as for the idea makers of Christmas) after reading this collection Meltis Newberry Fruits – well, did they even try and sell them any other time of Christmas-themed cartoons from his archive.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445663503</amazonuk>the year?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jonathan PughDoescher_Will|title=PughWilliam Shakespeare's New Year's Resolutionsthe Force Doth Awaken: Star Wars Part the Seventh|author=Ian Doescher

|summary=If A long time ago, in a galaxy far away, therewas a man called William Shakespeare, who was able to create a series of dramatic histories full of machinations most foul, rulers most evil and rebellious heroes and heroines most sturdy. You may or may not have noticed the cinematic version of his original stage play for 's one thing that's for certain, itThe Force Doth Awaken's that the world is changing. We're dating online, but here at last we're communicating get the actual script, complete with annoying-in -different-ways that make email seem redundant-to-before droids anew, returning heroes from elsewhere in his oeuvre, and when we're shopping we just tell a website where and when people keeping it can be delivered, and how much leeway they have to swap our wishes for whatever in the family til it is they do bring ushurts. But those changes are also supposed to be affecting us – we're supposed to use a smart watch to tell us And if we're moving or not, we have to keep up with the latest fadsyou need further encouragement, and wedon're supposed to prick our ears up and take note when t forget his audience only demanded three parts of Henry VI – here the proverbial 'they' change their minds about what series is so popular we're supposed on to eat.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780722885</amazonuk>part seven – surely making this over twice as good…

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Luke RhinehartGoss_600|title= InvasionDoctor Who: Now We Are Six Hundred: A Collection of Time Lord Verse (Dr Who)|author=James Goss and Russell T Davies|rating= 4.5|genre= Humour |summary=Super-intelligent furry aliens suddenly appear from another universeConsider the Doctor. And they've come Just how many birthday and Christmas gifts must he have to earth to have fun. Alien Louie follows fisherman Billy Morton home one dayhand out each year, and were he and to keep in touch with even half of his family quickly come to love the playful alien. But when Louie starts using their computer to hack into government and corporate networkscompanions? He would certainly need a few novelty gifts for some of them, say, stealing millions from banks to give to othersfor example, they realise whimsical books of verse that Louie pithily encapsulate the life of a Time Lord and that of some of his friends mean troubleand enemies. As Billy and his family begin a roller coaster ride of fame and fortuneluck would have it, as well as a ranking high on he has the FBI's most wanted listspace in his TARDIS to stock up in advance, the Government soon decides that these aliens are terroristsso my advice to him – sorry, her – would be to pop along to his local Earth-based book emporium and must be eliminatedget himself ready. Whilst the aliens are playing games they hope will help humans to see the insanity of the American politicalAnd if you're working on a shorter timescale, with a shorter lifespan, economic and military systemsthinking perhaps just one gift season ahead, they soon come to realise that well my advice is pretty much the Powers that Be don't play games: they make warsame. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785651757</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Rod GreenIngram_Kammie|title=Only Fools and Horses: The Peckham ArchivesConversations with Kammie|author=Annie Ingram

|genre=Entertainment Humour|summary=We are in the world It was something of one of the country's most famous a relief when I encountered Annie Ingram and well-loved sitcoms – even if it was sort-of killed off for Christmas 2003her cocker spaniel Kammie. YesYou see, there have Annie knows something which has been specials since, self-evident to me for a long time: dogs are perfectly capable of communicating with humans and more repeats not just on a level of food! walk! or play!. You do require extensive training to clog up the BBC schedules than is really pukkabecome fluent, but very few people failed most dogs will be perfectly willing to give their time to succumb teach you and all you have to its charms at one time or anotherdo is listen. I'm sure there Annie has studied hard: Kammie has trained her well and the pair have been books before now celebrating the stony-faced reception allowed us to share some of their conversations.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=Harris_Glass|title=The Breaking of ''that'' drop through the open bar hatch, Liam Glass|author=Charles Harris|rating=3|genre=Humour|summary=Teenager Liam Glass is mugged and ''that'' chandelier scene, but this is much more meatystabbed yards from his Camden flat. Purporting to be As the family archives, found dumped in Nelson Mandela Houseboy lies comatose, desperate journalist Jason Worthington scrabbles for the documents here were passed from pillar to postinside scoop, from one council worker in tired police officer Andy Rockham searches for a department with a clumsy acronym to anothermissing tape, harried politician Jamila Hasan fights for re-election, distraught mother Katrina Glass waits by her son, from them to and gym-owner Royland simply finds himself in the wrong place at the police – and now here they are being published for their social history worthwrong time. Will enough readers find them We follow this host of worthensemble characters in a bleak, as the series quietly celebrates its 35th birthday?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849909245</amazonuk>kaleidoscopic satire of modern media.