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[[Category:New Reviews|Humour]]__NOTOC__ {{Frontpage|author=Stephen Clarke|title=The Spy Who Inspired Me|rating=4|genre=General Fiction|summary=This is a spoof spy story, that isn't about James Bond. <Or Ian Fleming. But it features a man called Ian Lemming, 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 mission with a female spy called Margaux, and the pair end up stranded in Normandy, with Margaux on a desperate mission to unearth traitors in the resistance network, and Lemming desperately trying to keep up with her!|isbn=2952163855}}{{Frontpage|author=Afonso Cruz and Rahul Bery (translator)|title=Kokoschka's Doll|rating=2.5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=Well, this looked very much like a book I could love from the get-- Remove -->go, which is why I picked my review copy up and flipped pages over several times before actually reading any of it. I found things to potentially 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 so on. It intrigued with the subterranean voice a man hears in wartorn Dresden that what little I knew of it mentioned, too. But you've seen the star rating that comes with this review, and can tell that if love was on these pages, it was not actually caused by them. So what happened?|isbn=1529402697}}{{Frontpage|isbn=B08KKQ85FN|title=But Never For Lunch|author=Sandra Aragona|class-"wikitable" cellpaddingrating=4|genre=Short Stories|summary="15" <!-- INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE-->''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 carrion crows or, more to the point, about to discover the real world of bus timetables and paying his own gas bills.''
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|summary=For A long time ago, in a galaxy far away, all those who think tragedy 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 are too restricted and prescribedcharacters converse in Shakespearean dialogue, read on. In these pages you too will see and behave with Shakespearean stage directions – that Romeo had lots of options en route the producers tried again, with [[William Shakespeare's Get Thee Back to the Future! by Ian Doescher|Back to hitting the bottle. Likewise, she could have turned away from her predestined path at Future]] no end of juncturesless. And to what result? Well, happy marriage and that worked. But simultaneously they put a kid called Ben, because real test out. A film I can't even really remember seeing was transcribed into the leads have just banged people's heads together and stopped original Elizabethan lingo. A cult following I had never followed whatsoever was given the quarrellingbrand new, or Death by Tybalt (him) or a long life running an establishment curing murderous womenyet oh so ancient, such as a Lady M (her)dressing. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0356508536</amazonuk>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…
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{{Frontpage<!-- Phinn -->*[[image:Phinn_Virgin.jpg|left|linkisbn=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1444779400/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]168369094X =|title==[[The Virgin MaryWilliam Shakespeare's Got Nits by Gervase Phinn]]=Get Thee Back to the Future!|author=Ian Doescher|rating= [[image:4.5star.jpg5|linkgenre=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Humour|Humour]]summary=A long time ago, in a publishing house far away, [[:Category:AnthologiesIan Doescher|Anthologiessomeone]] Christmas thought it wonderfully wacky to rewrite the story of Star Wars in Shakespearean pentameter, colliding two entirely different genres and styles in our house is the time we tend to get on such a plane and head to either sun or snow, anywhere that is far, far away from clever way they seemed perfectly suited. It was then duly repeated for all the madness at home, last minute dashes to other films in the shops on Christmas Evemain Star Wars cycle, and food cupboard stockpiles that would imply supermarkets are shutting clearly someone's buffing their quills ready for a monthEpisode Nine, nor a mere 36 hours. But I do remember the feeling title of Christmas when which became public knowledge the day before I was youngerwrite. In the hiatus, back when it was magicalhowever, and back when you knew exactly what the season would bring effort has been made to see if the same shtick works with carol concerts and school nativities and Christmas parties. This book is an anthology of those momentsother texts, and it took me right back to the wonder of Christmas as a child. [[The Virgin Mary's Got Nits by Gervase Phinn|Full Review]]<br> {{newreview|author= Kieran Crowley|title= Shoot|rating= 4|genre= Crime|summary= I make something of a habit of being late to discover good writers, riff on other seemingly unlikely source materials in this case getting to Crowley after he is no longer with usiambs. The result is that what is billed as ''an F.X. Shepherd mystery'' with all the optimism of there being And could we have anything more suitably unsuitable-seeming than Back to come has the poignancy of beingFuture, if not the last with its tales of a short line, certainly one of a few. F.X. Shepherd – he doesn't like his first name and prefers just "Shepherd" istime travel, technicallybullying, 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<parent/amazonuk>child strife like no other?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Gray Jolliffe1473669065|title=The First Ever Christmas: And Who to BlameQueenie Malone's Paradise Hotel|author=Ruth Hogan
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|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>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1683690346|title=The Con Artist|author=Fred Van Lente|rating=4|genre=Humour|summary=Comic-Cons are a place of wonder and sanctuary for many people, and when Comic book artist Mike Mason arrives at San Diego Comic-Con, he's looking for both that and sanctuary with other fans and creators, plus the chance of maybe, just maybe reuniting with his ex. However, when his rival is found dead, Mike is forced to navigate every dark corner of the con in order to clear his name – from cosplay flash mobs and intrusive fans to zombie obstacle courses – Mike must prove his innocence and, in doing so, may just unravel a dark secret behind a legendary industry creator.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1473669588|title=Falling Short|author=Lex Coulton|rating=4|genre=Humour|summary=Lex Coulton's debut novel is a story about mistakes, failures, and relationships. The main protagonist, Frances Pilgrim, is a sixth form English teacher who has recently fallen out with her best friend Jackson, a work colleague and is grappling with the increasingly eccentric behaviour of her mother. This relationship is complicated by the fact that Frances's father disappeared at sea when she was five years old.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1683690133|title=My Lady's Choosing|author=Jonathan PughKitty Curran and Larissa Zageris|rating=4|genre=Humour|summary=You are a lass of twenty-eight. Plucky, penniless and in Regency-era London the race is on to find a suitable suitor - or else doom yourself to life as an eternal spinster. Along your journey, you'll be accompanied by Lady Evangeline Youngblood - a fiesty noble eager to save you from a life alone, and fired by a rogueish sense for adventure. When it comes to suitors though, you'll have to make the ultimate decision between witty, pretty and wealthy Sir Benedict Granville, wholesome, rugged and caring Captain Angus MacTaggart, or the mad, bad and terrifyingly sexy Lord Garraway Craven. With orphans, werewolves, long lost lovers and ancient Egyptian artefacts along the way, it's clear this isn't going to be an easy decision...}}{{Frontpage|isbn=Stibbe_Xmas|title=PughAn Almost Perfect Christmas|author=Nina Stibbe|rating=4.5|genre=Humour|summary=Christmas – the time of traditional trauma. You only have to think about the turkey for that – once upon a time it was leaving it sat on the downstairs loo to defrost overnight, and if that failed the hair-dryer shoved inside it treatment was your next best bet. Nowadays it's New Yearall having to make sure it's Resolutionssuitably free-range and organic – but not too organic that you can go and visit it, and get too friendly with it to want to eat it. Christmas, though, is of course also a 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 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?}}{{Frontpage|isbn=Doescher_Will|title=William Shakespeare's the Force Doth Awaken: Star Wars Part the Seventh|author=Ian Doescher
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|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…
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{{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>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Rod GreenIngram_Kammie|title=Only Fools and Horses: The Peckham ArchivesConversations with Kammie|author=Annie Ingram
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|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.
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