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[[Category:New Reviews|Humour]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Graham FulbrightDean Koontz|title=Driving Mad: Maniacs, Morons and the Advanced Motorist's ClubThe Bad Weather Friend|rating=34.5|genre=HumourParanormal|summary=I passed my driving test when John F Kennedy was in the White House and I've recently had to reapply for my driving licence Benny is having achieved a venerable ageterrifically bad day. He loses his job, he loses his fiancee, and his house gets trashed. When I started driving the roads were kinderOh, and someone has delivered a really weird, more forgiving places disturbing coffin- sized object to his home, and it's possible that whoever or put another waywhatever was inside is the thing that has trashed his house! The thing is, Benny is the idiots were fewer and further betweenvery last person to deserve all this bad luck. He is a nice person. A really nice person. I don't know how long Graham Fulbright So fortunately for Benny it turns out that the delivery to his house is a new friend, a bad weather friend called Spike, who has been drivingsent to help him since Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for being a good person. Spike is going to take care of Benny, but he and will certainly knows his motoring morons and in ''Driving Mad'take care of Benny' s enemies, if he brings us , Benny, and Harper (a fictional sample of their eccentricities. Well, Iwaitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny'm pretty certain that s wild adventure) can figure out who exactly they're fictional - but these days you never know..are.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1783062584</amazonuk>1662500491

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mario Giordano1529153050|title=Auntie Poldi and the Sicilian LionsBritain's Best Political Cartoons 2022|author=Tim Benson

|genre=CrimeHumour|summary=Poldi had not long been widowed when she decided to move Seeking some light relief from Bavaria the current political turmoil which is coming to Sicily with the intention seem more and more like an adrenaline sport, I was nudged towards ''Britain's Best Political Cartoons of drinking herself to death2022''. She could, of course, Sharp eyes will have done this in Germany, but she felt noted that a sea view was essential. Once there, new friends, family already resident on we're not yet through the island and year: the corpse of a young man, his face blown off by a shotgun, whom she found on the local beach, intervened cartoons run from 4 September 2021 to give her life some meaning31 August 2022. For a while she was a suspect, but that (and her wig) were no obstacle Who can imagine what there will be to her falling for Commissario Vito Montana who was assigned to investigate come in the case. Assisting him (or having him assist her) came naturally to Poldi and before long there was an investigative and personal partnership. At least so far as Poldi was concerned.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908524693</amazonuk>2023 edition?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Grady Hendrix1785633074|title= My Best Friend's ExorcismStaggering Hubris|author=Josh Berry|rating= 4.5|genre= HorrorHumour|summary=1988Members of Parliament like us to believe that the country is run by politicians, Charleston, South Carolina. High school sophomores Abby and Gretchen have been best friends since fourth grade. But after an evening of skinnyheaded by the Prime minister -dipping goes disatrously wrong, Gretchen begins to act...different. Shethe ''primus inter pares'' (that's moody. Shefor those of you who are Eton and Oxbridge educated) but the reality is that the ''prime's irritable. And bizarre incidents keep happening whenever she's nearbymovers are the special advisers - the SPADS - who are the driving force behind the government. Abby's investigation leads her We are in the privileged position of having access to some startling discoveries - and by the time their story reaches its terrifying conclusionmemoirs of Rafe Hubris, the fate man who was behind the skilful control of Abby and Gretchen the Covid crisis which was completely contained by the end of 2020. You might not know the name now but he will certainly be determined by a single question: Is their friendship enough the man to beat the devil?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1594748624</amazonuk>watch.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Kevin MacNeil0571365884|title=The Brilliant and ForeverMy Mess is a Bit of Life: Adventures in Anxiety|author=Georgia Pritchett|rating= 3.54|genre= HumourAutobiography|summary= You know sometimes when someone tells Georgia Pritchett has always been anxious, even as a child. She would worry about whether the monsters under the bed were comfortable: it was the sort of life where if she had nothing to worry about she would become anxious but such occasions were few and far between. On a visit to a joketherapist, everyone else laughsas an adult, when she was completely unable to speak about what was wrong with her it was suggested that she should write it down and you're sat there wondering what was 'My Mess is a Bit of a Life: Adventures in Anxiety'' is the result - or so funny?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846973376</amazonuk>we are given to believe.

{{newreviewFrontpage|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 SmithJohn Boyne|title=The Voyage of the DolphinEcho Chamber

|genre=Historical General Fiction|summary=Dublin 1916: Among Meet George Cleverley. He is self-defined as "one of the unrest and anti-British feeling worsened by few television personalities over the threat age of conscription into fifty without a war seen as nothing to do with the Irish, Trinity College faculty has other distractionscriminal record". They'd like He starts this book a trophy; the skeleton of an Irish 'giant' to be precise. The only glitch is that the main trophy contender, Bernard MacNeillbit worried when his mistress tells him she's skeletoncarrying his child, but then his author wife is somewhere difficult to access and all seasoned explorers are otherwise engagedgetting her kicks with the Ukrainian partner "Strictly Come Dancing" paired her with. There may be hope though. They turn to Fitzmauricehave three children, who are a student not good enough for anything else. Fitzmaurice agreessad-sack with absolutely no social skills whatsoever, picking his friends Crozier and Rafferty to go a girl who hangs around with him. So… ''Gentlemena virtue-signalling, lace up your strongest boots and pack your warmest underwear – we're all off keyboard warrior "wokester" who wants to save the bloody Arctic!world'' Whether battle cry or epitaphs homeless with out-of-date food, three men and a dog… and an iguana… are going anywayfit young lad doing the gay hustle thing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910124826</amazonuk>|amazonus=<amazonus>1910124826</amazonus>}}{{newreview|author=Tony Hawks|title=Once Upon Add in a Time in the West… Country|rating=3|genre=Travel|summary=I few other characters – therapists, lawyers, random transgender types – that all have often complained in a jokey voice two very different connections to my partner about his life in the sticks, and the way she moved me from you have something that suggests an inner-city flat almost farcical approach to slumming it in the suburbs with fewer busses, no takeaways within walking-and-keeping-food-hot distance, and no 'Polish' shops for a can of beer whenever you fancy onemodern world. Things are different with Tony Hawks, as here he has purposefully decided to up sticks from London to Somewhere, Devon – a tiny village where What suggests the people who built their own homes decades ago still live in them, where slugs are a lot farcical approach even more of a problem for the wannabe lettuce-grower than they are for the metropolitan commuter, 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 quiveringhowever, bruise-inducing wreck if you're is the wrong gender at a Zumba class…fact this is bloody funny.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444794809</amazonuk>0857526219

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Marian KeyesStephen Clarke|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 sure. But beyond sounding like a letch, what can I say about 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 of all things 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 child, but now that I reread them I can't help but wonder why, because they are so full of hilarious jokes that I definitely wouldn't have understood when I was younger. 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>}}{{newreview|author=Spadge Whittaker|title=Braver Than Britain, OccasionallyThe Spy Who Inspired Me

|genre=HumourGeneral Fiction|summary=In which Spadge researches BritainThis 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's top ten fears and faces them all over who works for the secret service, but in the course planning side of things more than the active service. Lemming finds himself put on a year. We're quite mission with a fearful societyfemale spy called Margaux, you know. And and the things we fear most arepair end up stranded in Normandy, with Margaux on a desperate mission to unearth traitors in order: heights (acrophobia), snakes (ophidiophobia), public speaking (glossophobia), spiders (arachnophobia), small spaces (claustrophobia), mice (musophobia), needles (trypanophobia), flying (pteromerhanophobia)the resistance network, crowds (agoraphobia) and clowns (coulrophobia).Lemming desperately trying to keep up with her!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0993429904</amazonuk>2952163855

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Mike BullenAfonso Cruz and Rahul Bery (translator)|title= TrustKokoschka's Doll|rating= 42.5|genre= General Literary Fiction|summary= Greg and Amanda are happy. UnmarriedWell, but together thirteen years and with two young daughters, they are this looked very much in like a book I could love. Dan and Sarah aren't so fortunate. Their marriage is going through from the motionsget-go, which is why I picked my review copy up and they're staying together for the sake flipped pages over several times before actually reading any of their troubled teenage sonit. Following I found things to potentially delight me each time – a business conference away from homeweird section in the middle on darker stock paper, one bad decision sends a happy couple into turmoilchapter whose number was in the 20,000s, letters used as narrative form, and turns an unhappy couple into love's young dreamso on. As secrets and betrayals threaten to send both relationships out It intrigued with the subterranean voice a man hears in wartorn Dresden that what little I knew of controlit mentioned, theretoo. But you's only one thing ve seen the star rating that comes with this review, and can keep everything from falling apart: Trusttell that if love was on these pages, it was not actually caused by them. So what happened?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0751559253</amazonuk>1529402697

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Dan RhodesB08KKQ85FN|title=When the Professor Got Stuck in the Snow|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction|summary= Two people are on a train on their way to, of all things, a WI meeting where the ladies of All Bottoms will be lectured on the non-existence of God. One of the two people is Professor Richard Dawkins, rampant atheist, hectoring scientist chappie, and all-round devotee of ''Deal or No Deal''. The other is Smee, his mono-named assistant, amanuensis or 'male secretary'. Smee will come to the fore when the weather sets in and the train journey has to be abandoned some way short of its ultimate destination, Upper Bottom. Instead the pair fetch up at the isolated yet friendly community of Market Horton, and the only option for accommodation is taken – yes, the died-in-the-wool non-believer has to be housed by a retired vicar and his wife. This clash of titanic opinions, peppered with social faux pas aplenty will provide for a particularly English kind of farcical comedy, but one with the legs to go as far as any other Good Books have reached in the past…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910709018</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewBut Never For Lunch|author=Rob Temple|title=Very British Problems AbroadSandra Aragona

|genre=HumourShort Stories|summary=Meet, if you haven't already'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 phenomenon company of carrion crows or, more to the Very British Problempoint, about to discover the real world of bus timetables and paying his own gas bills. '' You don't get many better opening sentences than that, do you? In this format theyWe first met His Excellency and The Ambassador're s Wife in pithy little comments (of, ooh, about 140 characters in length, for some reason…) [[Sorting the Priorities: Ambassadress and detail Beagle Survive Diplomacy by Sandra Aragona|Sorting the minor things in life that Priorities]] and we learned what it was like nothing more than to inflate be moved around countries like accompanying baggage by the Italian Government but the time has come for HE to retires and for Sandra Aragona to a major factor become The Wife of lifeFormer Ambassador... They can involve manners, staring at things until they mend themselves, hitting things ditto, or the fact that nobody apart from you have left The Career and I know how to queue properlysettled in Rome. And if Well 'settled' rather overstates the idea hits the world outside our shoressituation and their dog, then – wellBeagle, you certainly have a book full has no intention of content regarding our attitude slowing down any time soon, despite being sixteen and ineptitude abroaddeaf.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0751558494</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Fraser McAlpineB08GFSK2WZ|title=Stuff Brits LikeThe Karma Trap|author=Lisette Boyd

|genre=HumourWomen's Fiction|summary= With over 100 chapters on different aspects of Britain and Britishness, this book is both fascinating and hilarious. Just looking at the list of subjects is enough to produce a sardonic twist of that stiff upper lip: the chapters cover topics that range from offal to curry, from pedantry to banter, from conkers to rugby. There may be many chapters but this George Jackson is no academic tome thirty- each chapter is just two to three pages longyears old, each is written with endearing affection, each is easy and satisfying absolutely gorgeous to look at - and quirkily funny - to readsingle.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1857886348</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= John Samuel|title= What I Tell You She's not had sex for eight months and she's stuck in the Dark|rating= 3karma trap: an awful lot of bad luck is being visited on her and she has a real talent for attracting drama.5|genre= Humour|summary=A man called Will is fighting fiercely against corruption – desperate to expose his company Her life's dodgy dealings to chaotic: she dealt with the leak from the press. Overcome with doubt and fear, he goes to kill himself. But, shower by putting something down at the exact moment he attaches his noose to the back bottom of the door, he is saved. By a curious housemate or a concerned girlfriend? No, by an Angel. Not stairs to absorb the whitewater -feathered guardian Angel you may expect, but one who wishes to help Will achieve his ends, and so possess then the body of shower fell through the hapless Will roof whilst she was in order to finish what he started. It goes without saying that the Angel is hoping things go better than they did with the last guy he possessed – a hapless young man from Galilee called Jesus…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0715650505</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= John Niven|title= The Sunshine Cruise Company|rating= 4.5|genre= Humour|summary= Susan Frobisher it and Julie Wickham live in a small Dorset town. Friends since schoolleft her, they live fairly uneventful lives – Susan has a lovely house and a lengthy marriage to accountant Barrystark naked, whereas Julie is doing slightly less well – living in a council flat and working in an old people's homestaring at the pervy postman. When Barry is found dead trussed up in a sex dungeon, it transpires that he She only has been leading a hidden life for years, and his expensive fetishes lead to the bank moving to take Susanher mother's home. Struck by both desperation and dog out for a sense of injustice, Sue and Julie conspire walk for her to rob a bank, taking along their friend Jill – a devout Christian conflicted due to lack of money end up with dog poo spattered across her face - and a terminally ill grandson, and Ethel – a foul mouthed resident of photo being taken by someone who shares it around the nursing home longing for adventureoffice.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0434023183</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Marie PhillipsDavid C Mason|title=The Table Of Less Valued Knights|rating=4.5|genre=Fantasy|summary=Sir Humphrey has been demoted from King ArthurPandora's Round Table to the Table of Lesser Valued Knights. The only way to get his comfier seat back is to redeem himself via a quest. Therefore when damsel Elaine seeks help to find her kidnapped fiancé, Humphrey and his ward, the teenage giant Conrad, eagerly set forth. Meanwhile in the kingdom of Tuft, new Queen Martha has run away after a disastrous wedding to… a… well… disastrous Prince Edwin. She may not realise it yet, but she too will have a job for Humphrey!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099555875</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Tim Flannery|title=The Mystery of the Venus Island FetishGardener

|genre=Historical FictionCrime|summary=Meet Archie Meek. He's about to leave the Venus IslandsJohn Cranston is a gardener, where although what he did before he's lived for the last five yearsbecame a gardener, and return to Sydneyhe claims, where he'll take his office in the museum and fill it with all the cultural artefacts he's found and wildlife he's plucked or pickledis classified. That's not to ignore the fact he'll count is just as something quite alien himself, with his filled-out frame, nearly all-over suntan and totemic tattoo, in amongst other changes to his body. But what's this? When well because he gets back, he finds one of the main Venus Islands artefacts that caused him is about to go there be caught up in the first place, a hugecriminal / spy / terrorist plot, macabre ceremonial fetish mask, purloined as corporate artwork. And some of where only he can save the curators he wishes to work alongside have vanishedday. Is the weird society of the museum he's returning to, perchance, even weirder, stranger and more violent than the cannibalistic society he's waving farewell to?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1922079308</amazonuk>0956180523

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Roman DirgeJester_Forever|title=The Cat with Forever After: a Really Big Headdark comedy|author=David Jester|rating=3.54|genre=Graphic NovelsHorror|summary= How many picture books are there about cats? And how many do you know that you would really NOT prefer your children to see? If the answer to the second question Michael Holland is 'none – yet', scratch that last word. The title piece in this collection is, by the author's own admission, his imagining of the Joseph Merrick (the 'Elephant Man') of the feline world – a cocky and brash young man who struggles to sneak up behind a mouse when dies and gets made the shadow offer of his head is lifetime; immortality. We follow Michael, a total giveaway, grim reaper and who can hardly even eat with dignity as bending down to his bowl would break his neck. If that's too dark or oddball for youfriends, try the second major piece, which has Chip (a most revealing foreword – ''Dedicated to stoner tooth fairy) and Naff (a certain girl… I hope your life is filled stoner in the records department) as they grapple with wonderful accomplishments, love their long lives and all the magic you desire… - But I hope your death is slow and horriblefinding a clean surface to sit on in their flat.''|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782762876</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Val Hennessy1683691172|title=Not Far From DreamlandWilliam Shakespeare's Much Ado About Mean Girls|author=Ian Doescher|rating=42.5|genre=General FictionHumour|summary=Ronald Tonks has reached that stage A long time ago, in life which I call upper middle age: you've qualified for your pension but not yet got to the free television licence barrier. What Ronald ''has'' got is a roof that leaks (there's good reason why his home is called 'galaxy far away, all the shack')Star Wars films were crunched up against Shakespeare, and the marriage seemed a dog who is going bald (in patches) and money that's in very short supplyperfectly suitable one. On So much so – so easily did the plus side he has friends, mostly platonic plots and usually characters converse in much the same boat as Ronald. But are they downhearted? WellShakespearean dialogue, they are occasionally, but mostly they're generously optimistic and out to make behave with Shakespearean stage directions – that the most of what they've gotproducers tried again, usually bought from charity shops and jumble sales. with [[William Shakespeare''Not Far From Dreamland'' is s Get Thee Back to the story of a year (2012) in the life of Ronald Tonks, his friends and relatives.Future! by Ian Doescher|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0704373874</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Harry Harrison|title=Bill, Back to the Galactic Hero|rating=3Future]] no less.5|genre=Science Fiction|summary=Meet BillAnd that worked. He's But simultaneously they put a simple farmer – well, he real test out. A film I can''is'' taking a correspondence course in being a Technical Fertiliser Operator – but fate has something else in storet even really remember seeing was transcribed into the original Elizabethan lingo. And so does A cult following I had never followed whatsoever was given the mechanisedbrand new, technologicalyet oh so ancient, industrial military, which needs several billion grunts dressing. Here was the true challenge – would I manage to fight the Chingersenjoy this, in mankind's first inter-galactic war. Still, at least he gets medals just based on little foreknowledge? Oh damn those shiny gold stars for signing up. After that it's all downhill, and letting the likes of Petty Chief Officer Deathwish Drang can only make that a straight line down. Really, what hope is there?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>147320531X</amazonuk>game away…

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=168369094X|title=William Shakespeare's Get Thee Back to the Future!

|summary= Join usA long time ago, good gentlesin a 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 clever way they seemed perfectly suited. It was then duly repeated for a merry reimagining of `all the other films in the main Star Wars cycle, and clearly someone's buffing their quills ready for Episode 1' as only Shakespeare could have written itNine, the title of which became public knowledge the day before I write. 'Tis a true Shakespearean drama In the hiatus, however, filled the effort has been made to see if the same shtick works with sword fightsother texts, soliloquies and doomed romance…all to riff on other seemingly unlikely source materials in glorious iambic pentameter and coupled with gorgeous illustrationsiambs. Hold on And could we have anything more suitably unsuitable-seeming than Back to your midichlorians: The plays the thingFuture, wherein youwith its tales of time travel, bullying, and parent/child strife like no other?}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1473669065|title=Queenie Malone'll catch the rise of Anakin!s Paradise Hotel|author=Ruth Hogan|rating=5|genre=Humour|amazonuksummary=<amazonuk>1594748063</amazonuk>Tilda returns to Brighton, to tidy away the remains of her mother's life after her death. Whilst there, she returns to the Paradise hotel, a haven for eccentrics and misfits. A place where people can be themselves, and let go of thoughts that torment them elsewhere. Little wonder that Tilda cannot forgive her mother for banishing her as a child, from this place of wonder. With the help of Queenie Malone, caring, and gregarious, Tilda begins to pick apart the tricky and uncertain relationship she had with her sometimes cruel and distant mother.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Attaboy1683690346|title=The Book of HugsCon Artist|author=Fred Van Lente

|summary=A hug's Comic-Cons are a hugplace of wonder and sanctuary for many people, OK? You either doand when Comic book artist Mike Mason arrives at San Diego Comic-Con, or you donhe't. Some people might be a little more enthusiastic about the process whilst others are more elegant in s looking for both that and sanctuary with other fans and creators, plus the execution chance of the hugmaybe, but basically you just get on 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 do it intrusive fans to zombie obstacle courses – Mike must prove his innocence and then forget about it, right?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0867197978</amazonuk>in doing so, may just unravel a dark secret behind a legendary industry creator.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Christopher Fowler1473669588|title= Bryant and May – The Burning ManFalling Short|author=Lex Coulton

|genre=CrimeHumour|summary= The Peculiar Crimes Unit (PCU) has Lex Coulton's debut novel is a new set of overlords. For reasons that were explored in the previous couple of outings they have been transferred to the City Of London Policestory about mistakes, failures, and relationships. The Met are still the big players in the area. City of London Police only police the old citymain protagonist, the square mileFrances Pilgrim, the financial district in other words, that is a sixth form English teacher who has very little in the way of street crimerecently fallen out with her best friend Jackson, because no-one lives there anymore a work colleague and is grappling with the people who work there are, increasingly eccentric behaviour of her mother. This relationship is complicated by and large, either too rich to need to steal, or too smart to have to do so on the streetsfact that Frances's father disappeared at sea when she was five years old.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857522043</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Catharina Ingelman-Sundberg1683690133|title=The Little Old My Lady Who Struck Lucky Again! 's Choosing|author=Kitty Curran and Larissa Zageris|rating=3.54

|summary=Following the success You are a lass of ''The Little Old Lady Who Broke All the Rules''twenty-eight. Plucky, the League of Pensioners are back – penniless and this time, they’re in Vegas! I haven’t read Regency-era London the first book but it was race is on my list when the opportunity arose to review this onefind a suitable suitor - or else doom yourself to life as an eternal spinster. The idea of the League of Pensioners marching towards Along your journey, you'll be accompanied by Lady Evangeline Youngblood - a fiesty noble eager to save you from a fairer world through fun life alone, and frolics was hugely appealing fired by a rogueish sense for adventure. When it comes to suitors though, you'll have to me 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 is a stand alone novel so I thought I would dive straight in with this oneisn't going to be an easy decision...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447274903</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=WinshlussStibbe_Xmas|title=In God We TrustAn Almost Perfect Christmas|author=Nina Stibbe

|genre=Graphic NovelsHumour|summary=To start withChristmas – 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, a rhetorical testand if that failed the hair-dryer shoved inside it treatment was your next best bet. How about God Nowadays it's all having to make sure it's suitably free-range and Adam playing badminton day in organic – but not too organic that you can go and day outvisit it, until one gets bored and decides get too friendly with it to want to create Eve? Or the defeater eat it. Christmas, though, is of Goliath and the saviour course also a time of the Israelites being one Conan the Barbarian? Or this as great boons. It's cash in hand for a test – Jesus Himself failing to have lot of plump people who can hire red suits and beards, it was always a successful session of tequila slammers godsend for postmen with Gabriel due all the thank-you letters to the holes through His hands? I barely need mention aunties you saw twice a decade that your parents made you write out in these pages God does battle with Supermanlong-hand as a child, and as for you to have answered the test and put yourself firmly in one makers of two camps for this book Meltis Newberry Fruits – one very much opposed to buying itwell, did they even try and one very much in favour.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0861662350</amazonuk>sell them any other time of the year?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=David Walliams and Tony RossDoescher_Will|title=The QueenWilliam Shakespeare's Orang-Utan|rating=5|genre=For Sharing|summary=The Queen felt trapped in the palace with all those stuffed animals which she has been given on foreign tours. There are mountains of them and every night she would dream of escaping. When her birthday drew near the family dutifully asked her what she would like as a present. The Prince was thinking of a gold, diamond encrusted stairlift whilst the Duke was considering a great big bottle of brandy. The Royal Baby had some decorated thimbles in mind, but Force Doth Awaken: Star Wars Part the Queen became just a little snappish as she explained that what she really wanted was 'One's own orang-utan'. And she didn't mean a stuffed one, either.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0008135134</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewSeventh|author=Jack Sheffield|title=Silent NightIan Doescher|rating=34.5|genre=General FictionHumour|summary=I read a couple of Jack Sheffield’s books about five years A long time ago, and enjoyed them very much. They were written in a similar style to those popularised bygalaxy far away, for instancethere was a man called William Shakespeare, James Herriot or [[:Category:Gervase Phinn|Gervase Phinn]], told mostly in the first person, describing the author’s first couple who was able to create a series of years as Headmaster at a small village primary school in Yorkshire. The village dramatic histories full of Ragley is fictionalmachinations most foul, as are rulers most of the characters, but the incidents evil and rebellious heroes and situations encountered are based on the author’s experienceheroines most sturdy.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0552167045</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=J Robert Lennon|title=See You In Paradise|rating=3|genre=Short Stories|summary=Lennon writes with a relaxed, easy style and his characters are instantly recognisable as people from everyday walks of life, without being in any way stereotypical. Many of the people in these stories are dealing with normal frustrations, and Lennon is cleverly detached enough may or may not to make them individuals that you're obviously supposed to root for (have noticed the only exception is the industrialist in the eponymous tale, who is an archetypal capitalist fat cat). There are some very clever characterisations – in ''Weber’s Head'', for example, the narrator is a flawed individual whose opinions cinematic version of his housemate are gradually revealed to be unreliable and unfair. For me, the most unsettling story is original stage play for ''No LifeThe Force Doth Awaken'', because it portrays a decent couple but here at last we get the mercy of people more powerful and influential than them. There is no supernatural or bizarre element at work hereactual script, just ordinary characters at the mercy of social power.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781253358</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Lynne Truss|title=Cat out of Hell|rating=3|genre=Horror|summary=Meet Alec Charlesworth. He's retired and decamped complete with annoying-in-different-ways-to an isolated coastal cottage with just -before droids anew, returning heroes from elsewhere in his dog oeuvre, and loving memories of his colleague wife, now that she has died before her time. But the fusty librarian cannot rest too long before engaging people keeping it in exploring some unusual computer files that were pinged across by someone at the college he worked at, just before he leftfamily til it hurts. Bizarrely they show photographic and audio evidence of a talking cat called RogerAnd if you need further encouragement, replete with Vincent Price voice – although they are also damaged by being included alongside some bad screenplay attempts about said cat. Worryingly, we soon see what at the most don't forget his audience only a few demanded three parts of Henry VI – here the characters can, that this cat series is being accompanied by unusual and unexpected death – much like Alecso popular we's wife. It's only when Roger testifies re on to having been pushed through the ends of endurance and out the other side that we begin to doubt where the true evil in part seven – surely making this story lies…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099585340</amazonuk>over twice as good…