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[[Category:New Reviews|Humour]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Rod GreenDean Koontz|title=Only Fools The Bad Weather Friend|rating=4.5|genre=Paranormal|summary=Benny is having a terrifically bad day. He loses his job, he loses his fiancee, and his house gets trashed. Oh, and Horses: someone has delivered a really weird, disturbing coffin-sized object to his home, and it's possible that whoever or whatever was inside is the thing that has trashed his house! The Peckham Archivesthing is, Benny is the very last person to deserve all this bad luck. He is a nice person. A really nice person. 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 sent 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, and will certainly take care of Benny's enemies, if he, Benny, and Harper (a waitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny's wild adventure) can figure out who exactly they are.|isbn=1662500491}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529153050|title=Britain's Best Political Cartoons 2022|author=Tim Benson

|summary= George Gordon Wentworth (1946-2011) lived a humdrum life. He was a barely adequate teacher in a fairly world renowned independent school in Kent and kept a copious diary of his quotidian existence. Most of what he recorded was dross. However, amongst all Seeking some light relief from the utterly uninteresting tailings of his life there were some nuggets current political turmoil which is coming to seem more and grains to catch the attention. Author Tony Stuart has created these amusing anecdotesmore like an adrenaline sport, panning them out over twenty six episodes which give us the best I was nudged towards ''Britain's Best Political Cartoons of Wentworth – comedy gold2022''. From losing all Sharp eyes will have noted that we're not yet through the pupils in his charge on a school trip to being arrested on suspicion of terrorism; from waking up in bed between the married couple year: the morning after their wedding, to destroying a ski cartoons run; from appearing full-frontal naked 4 September 2021 to 31 August 2022. Who can imagine what there will be to come in a sheep-farmers' gazette to triggering an air-sea rescue; Wentworth was, blinkered and befuddled, the subject – of these and so many more unlikely but highly amusing events.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1524634441</amazonuk>2023 edition?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Graham Fulbright1785633074|title=Driving Mad: Maniacs, Morons and the Advanced Motorist's ClubStaggering Hubris|author=Josh Berry|rating=34.5

|summary=I passed my driving test when John F Kennedy was in the White House and I've recently had Members of Parliament like us to reapply for my driving licence having achieved a venerable age. When I started driving believe that the roads were kindercountry is run by politicians, more forgiving places headed by the Prime minister - or put another way, the idiots were fewer and further between. I don't know how long Graham Fulbright has been driving, but he certainly knows his motoring morons and in 'primus inter pares'Driving Mad'(that' he brings us a fictional sample s for those of their eccentricities. Well, Iyou who are Eton and Oxbridge educated) but the reality is that the ''prime'm pretty certain that they're fictional movers are the special advisers - but these days you never knowthe SPADS - who are the driving force behind the government. We are in the privileged position of having access to the memoirs of Rafe Hubris, the man who was behind the skilful control of the Covid crisis which was completely contained by the end of 2020. You might not know the name now but he will certainly be the man to watch.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783062584</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mario Giordano0571365884|title=Auntie Poldi and the Sicilian LionsMy Mess is a Bit of Life: Adventures in Anxiety|author=Georgia Pritchett

|genre=CrimeAutobiography|summary=Poldi had not long Georgia Pritchett has always been widowed when she decided to move from Bavaria to Sicily with the intention of drinking herself to death. She couldanxious, of course, have done this in Germany, but she felt that even as a sea view was essentialchild. Once there, new friends, family already resident on She would worry about whether the monsters under the island and bed were comfortable: it was the corpse sort of a young man, his face blown off by a shotgun, whom life where if she found on the local beach, intervened had nothing to give her life some meaning. For a while worry about she was a suspect, would become anxious but that (such occasions were few and her wig) were no obstacle to her falling for Commissario Vito Montana who was assigned to investigate the casefar between. Assisting him (or having him assist her) came naturally On a visit to Poldi and before long there was a therapist, as an investigative and personal partnership. adult, At least so far as Poldi when she was completely unable to speak about what was concerned.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908524693</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Grady Hendrix|title= My Best Friend's Exorcism|rating= 5|genre= Horror|summary=1988, Charleston, South Carolina. High school sophomores Abby and Gretchen have been best friends since fourth grade. But after an evening of skinny-dipping goes disatrously wrong, Gretchen begins to act...different. She's moody. She's irritable. And bizarre incidents keep happening whenever with her it was suggested that sheshould write it down and 's nearby. Abby's investigation leads her to some startling discoveries - and by the time their story reaches its terrifying conclusion, the fate My Mess is a Bit of Abby and Gretchen will be determined by a single questionLife: Is their friendship enough to beat the devil?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1594748624</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Kevin MacNeil|title=The Brilliant and Forever|rating= 3.5|genre= Humour|summary= You know sometimes when someone tells a joke, everyone else laughs, and youAdventures in Anxiety'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 result - or so we are morphing into full-scale hallucinationsgiven to believe.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857523422</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|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 criminal record". He starts this book a war seen as nothing to do bit worried when his mistress tells him she's carrying his child, but then his author wife is getting her kicks with the Irish, Trinity College faculty has other distractionsUkrainian partner "Strictly Come Dancing" paired her with. They'd like have three children, who are a sad-sack with absolutely no social skills whatsoever, a girl who hangs around with a trophy; the skeleton of an Irish 'giant' virtue-signalling, keyboard warrior "wokester" who wants to be precise. The only glitch is that save the main trophy contender, Bernard MacNeillworld's skeletonhomeless with out-of-date food, is somewhere difficult to access and all seasoned explorers are otherwise engageda fit young lad doing the gay hustle thing. There may be hope though. They turn to FitzmauriceAdd in a few other characters – therapists, a student not good enough for anything else. Fitzmaurice agreeslawyers, picking random transgender types – that all have two very different connections to his friends Crozier life, and Rafferty you have something that suggests an almost farcical approach to go with himthe modern world. So… ''GentlemenWhat suggests the farcical approach even more, however, lace up your strongest boots and pack your warmest underwear – we're all off to is the fact this is bloody Arctic!'' Whether battle cry or epitaph, three men and a dog… and an iguana… are going anywayfunny.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910124826</amazonuk>|amazonusisbn=<amazonus>1910124826</amazonus>0857526219

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Tony HawksStephen Clarke|title=Once Upon a Time in the West… Country|rating=3|genre=Travel|summary=I have often complained in a jokey voice to my partner about life in the sticks, and the way she moved me from an inner-city flat 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 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 them, where slugs are a lot 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 quivering, bruise-inducing wreck if you're the wrong gender 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 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-Utanthe Force Doth Awaken: Star Wars Part the Seventh|author=Ian Doescher|rating=4.5|genre=For SharingHumour|summary=The Queen felt trapped A long time ago, 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 galaxy far away, there was thinking of a goldman called William Shakespeare, diamond encrusted stairlift whilst the Duke who was considering able to create a great big bottle series of brandydramatic 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 ''The Royal Baby had some decorated thimbles in mindForce Doth Awaken'', but here at last we get the Queen became just a little snappish as she explained that what she really wanted was 'One's own orangactual script, complete with annoying-in-different-ways-to-utan'before droids anew, returning heroes from elsewhere in his oeuvre, and people keeping it in the family til it hurts. And she didnif you need further encouragement, don't mean a stuffed one, either.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0008135134</amazonuk>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…