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[[Category:New Reviews|Humour]]__NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{Frontpage|class-"wikitable" cellpaddingauthor="15" <!-- INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE--> <!-- Curran -->|-Dean Koontz| styletitle="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|The Bad Weather Friend[[image:1683690133.jpg|linkrating=http://www.amazon.co4.uk/dp/1683690133/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] 5| stylegenre="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"Paranormal|summary===[[My Lady's Choosing by Kitty Curran Benny is having a terrifically bad day. He loses his job, he loses his fiancee, and Larissa Zageris]]=== [[image:4starhis house gets trashed.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Humour|Humour]] Oh, [[:Category:Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]] You are and someone has delivered a lass of twenty eight. Pluckyreally weird, disturbing coffin-sized object to his home, penniless and in Regency era London it's possible that whoever or whatever was inside is the race thing that has trashed his house! The thing is, Benny is on the very last person to find deserve all this bad luck. He is a suitable suitor - or else doom yourself to life as an eternal spinsternice person. A really nice person. Along your journey you'll be accompanied by Lady Evangeline Youngblood - a fiesty noble eager So fortunately for Benny it turns out that the delivery to save you from his house is a life alonenew friend, and fired by a rogueish sense bad weather friend called Spike, who has been sent to help him since Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for adventurebeing a good person. When it comes Spike is going to suitors thoughtake care of Benny, youand will certainly take care of Benny'll have to make the ultimate decision between wittys enemies, pretty and wealthy Sir Benedict Granvilleif he, wholesomeBenny, 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 artifcats along the way, itHarper (a waitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny's clear this isn't going to be an easy decisionwild adventure) can figure out who exactly they are... [[My Lady's Choosing by Kitty Curran and Larissa Zageris|Full Review]]isbn=1662500491}}<!-- Jester -->{{Frontpage|-isbn=1529153050| styletitle="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|Britain's Best Political Cartoons 2022[[image:Jester_Forever.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1510704361?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCodeauthor=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1510704361]] Tim Benson| stylerating="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"4|genre===[[Forever After: a dark comedy by David Jester]]===Humour[[image:4star.jpg|linksummary=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Paranormal|Paranormal]], [[:Category:Horror|Horror]], [[:Category:Fantasy|Fasntasy]] Michael Holland Seeking some light relief from the current political turmoil which is a cocky coming to seem more and brash young man who dies and gets made the offer more like an adrenaline sport, I was nudged towards ''Britain's Best Political Cartoons of his lifetime; immortality2022''. We follow Michael, a grim reaper and his friends Chip (a stoner tooth fairy) and Naff (a stoner in Sharp eyes will have noted that we're not yet through the year: the records department) as they grapple with their long lives and finding a clean surface cartoons run from 4 September 2021 to 31 August 2022. Who can imagine what there will be to sit on come in their flat. [[Forever After: a dark comedy by David Jester|Full Review]]the 2023 edition?}}<!-- Stibbe -->{{Frontpage|-isbn=1785633074| styletitle="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|Staggering Hubris[[image:Stibbe_Xmas.jpg|left|linkauthor=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0241309824?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=0241309824]] Josh Berry| style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[An Almost Perfect Christmas by Nina Stibbe]]==rating= [[image:4.5star.jpg5|linkgenre=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Humour|Humour]], [[:Category:Short Stories|Short Stories]] Christmas – the time summary=Members of traditional trauma. You only have Parliament like us to think about the turkey for believe that – once upon a time it was leaving it sat on the downstairs loo to defrost overnightcountry is run by politicians, and if that failed headed by the hairPrime minister -dryer shoved inside it treatment was your next best bet. Nowadays itthe ''primus inter pares's all having to make sure it's suitably 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 those of plump people you who can hire red suits are Eton and beards, it was always a godsend for postmen with all Oxbridge educated) but the reality is that the ''prime'' movers are the special advisers - the thankSPADS -you letters who are the driving force behind the government. We are in the privileged position of having access 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 memoirs of Meltis Newberry Fruits – wellRafe Hubris, did they even try and sell them any other time the man who was behind the skilful control of the year? [[An Almost Perfect Christmas Covid crisis which was completely contained by Nina Stibbe|Full Review]]the end of 2020. You might not know the name now but he will certainly be the man to watch.}}<!-- Doescher -->{{Frontpage|-isbn=0571365884| styletitle="widthMy Mess is a Bit of Life: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|Adventures in Anxiety[[image:Doescher_Will.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/159474985X?ieauthor=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=159474985X]] Georgia Pritchett| stylerating="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"4|genre===[[William Shakespeare's the Force Doth Awaken: Star Wars Part the Seventh by Ian Doescher]]===Autobiography[[image:4.5star.jpg|linksummary=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Science Fiction|Science Fiction]]Georgia Pritchett has always been anxious, [[even as a child. She would worry about whether the monsters under the bed were comfortable:Category:Humour|Humour]] A long time ago, in a galaxy far away, there it was a man called William Shakespeare, who was able the sort of life where if she had nothing to create a series of dramatic histories full of machinations most foul, rulers most evil worry about she would become anxious but such occasions were few and rebellious heroes and heroines most sturdyfar between. You may or may not have noticed the cinematic version of his original stage play for ''The Force Doth Awaken''On a visit to a therapist, but here at last we get the actual scriptas an adult, complete when she was completely unable to speak about what was wrong with annoying-in-different-ways-to-before droids anew, returning heroes from elsewhere in his oeuvre, and people keeping her it in the family til was suggested that she should write it hurts. And if you need further encouragement, dondown and ''t forget his audience only demanded three parts My Mess is a Bit of Henry VI – here a Life: Adventures in Anxiety'' is the series is result - or so popular we're on are given 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]]believe.}}<!-- Goss -->{{Frontpage|-author=John Boyne| styletitle="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"The Echo Chamber|rating=5[[image:Goss_600.jpg|left|linkgenre=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1785942719?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1785942719]] General Fiction| stylesummary="verticalMeet George Cleverley. He is self-align: top; text-align: left;defined as "|===[[Doctor Who: Now We Are Six Hundred: A Collection one of the few television personalities over the age of Time Lord Verse (Dr Who) by James Goss and Russell T Davies]]=== [[image:4fifty without a criminal record".5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:ChildrenHe starts this book a bit worried when his mistress tells him she's Rhymes and Verse|Children's Rhymes and Verse]]carrying his child, [[:Category:Science Fiction|Science Fiction]], [[:Category:Humour|Humour]] Consider but then his author wife is getting her kicks with the DoctorUkrainian partner "Strictly Come Dancing" paired her with. Just how many birthday and Christmas gifts must he They have to hand out each yearthree children, who are a sad-sack with absolutely no social skills whatsoever, were he to keep in touch a girl who hangs around with even half of his companions? He would certainly need a few novelty gifts for some of themvirtue-signalling, say, for example, whimsical books of verse that pithily encapsulate keyboard warrior "wokester" who wants to save the life world's homeless with out-of -date food, and a Time Lord and that of some of his friends and enemiesfit young lad doing the gay hustle thing. As luck would have it, he has the space Add in his TARDIS to stock up in advancea few other characters – therapists, so my advice to him – sorrylawyers, her random transgender types – would be to pop along that all have two very different connections to his local Earth-based book emporium life, and get himself readyyou have something that suggests an almost farcical approach to the modern world. And if you're working on a shorter timescaleWhat suggests the farcical approach even more, with a shorter lifespan, and thinking perhaps just one gift season aheadhowever, well my advice is pretty much the samefact this is bloody funny. [[Doctor Who: Now We Are Six Hundred: A Collection of Time Lord Verse (Dr Who) by James Goss and Russell T Davies|Full Review]]isbn=0857526219}}<!-- Ingram -->{{Frontpage|-author=Stephen Clarke| styletitle="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|The Spy Who Inspired Me[[image:Ingram_Kammie.jpg|left|linkrating=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1785451995?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1785451995]] 4| stylegenre="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|General Fiction===[[Conversations with Kammie by Annie Ingram]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|linksummary=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Pets|Pets]]This is a spoof spy story, [[:Category:Humour|Humour]] It was something of that isn't about James Bond. Or Ian Fleming. But it features a relief when I encountered Annie Ingram man called Ian Lemming, who dresses well and 'likes the ladies' and her cocker spaniel Kammiewho works for the secret service, but in the planning side of things more than the active service. You see, Annie knows something which has been self-evident to me for Lemming finds himself put on a long time: dogs are perfectly capable of communicating mission with humans a female spy called Margaux, and not just the pair end up stranded in Normandy, with Margaux on a level of food!, walk! or play!. You do require extensive training desperate mission to become fluentunearth traitors in the resistance network, but most dogs will be perfectly willing to give their time to teach you and all you have Lemming desperately trying to do is listen. Annie has studied hard: Kammie has trained keep up with her well and the pair have allowed us to share some of their conversations. [[Conversations with Kammie by Annie Ingram!|Full Review]]isbn=2952163855}}<!-- Harris -->{{Frontpage|-author=Afonso Cruz and Rahul Bery (translator)| styletitle="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|Kokoschka's Doll[[image:Harris_Glass.jpg|linkrating=http://www.amazon.co2.uk/dp/1908943823/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] 5| style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The Breaking of Liam Glass by Charles Harris]]==genre=Literary Fiction [[image:3star.jpg|linksummary=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime|Crime]]Well, this looked very much like a book I could love from the get-go, [[:Category:Humour|Humour]] Teenager Liam Glass which is mugged why I picked my review copy up and stabbed yards from his Camden flatflipped pages over several times before actually reading any of it. As I found things to potentially delight me each time – a weird section in the boy lies comatosemiddle on darker stock paper, desperate journalist Jason Worthington scrabbles for a chapter whose number was in the inside scoop20, tired police officer Andy Rockham searches for a missing tape000s, harried politician Jamila Hasan fights for re-election, distraught mother Katrina Glass waits by her sonletters used as narrative form, and gym-owner Royland simply finds himself 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 wrong place at the wrong time. We follow star rating that comes with this host of ensemble characters in a bleakreview, and can tell that if love was on these pages, kaleidoscopic satire of modern mediait was not actually caused by them. [[The Breaking of Liam Glass by Charles Harris So what happened?|Full Review]]isbn=1529402697}}<!-- LENTE -->{{Frontpage|-isbn=B08KKQ85FN| styletitle="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|But Never For Lunch[[image:Lente_10.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1683690222/ref=nosim?tagauthor=thebookbag-21]] Sandra Aragona| stylerating="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"4|genre===[[Ten Dead Comedians: A Murder Mystery by Fred Van Lente]]===Short Stories[[image:4star.jpg|linksummary=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 real world of bus timetables 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 paying his real personality as a posh millionaireown gas bills. Of course, all nine agree because ''when God almighty walks down on a beam of light and asks for your help, what the hell else are you going to say?'' [[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://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1788037006/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] 

| style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[ElizabethYou don't get many better opening sentences than that, William... do you? We first met His Excellency and Me by S Lynn Scott]]=== The Ambassador's Wife in [[imageSorting the Priorities:4.5star.jpgAmbassadress and Beagle Survive Diplomacy by Sandra Aragona|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Humour|HumourSorting the Priorities]] 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 we learned what it's was like to be moved around countries like accompanying baggage by the same day she finds Queen Elizabeth I in Italian Government but the pantry time has come for HE to retires and the Bard for Sandra Aragona to become The Wife of Avon in her bath. What's she going to do? Well, Elizabeth and Will have their own ideas about that! [[Elizabeth, WilliamFormer Ambassador... They have left The Career and Me by S Lynn Scott|Full Review]]  <!-- DO NOT REMOVE ANYTHING BELOW THIS LINE -->|} {{newreview|author= E G Rodford|title= The Surgeonsettled in Rome. Well 'settled's Case: George Kocharyan Mystery 2|rating= 4|genre= Crime |summary=In rather overstates the second instalment of this series, Private Investigator George Kocharyan has been hired by a well-known local man to track down some missing valuables. Bill Galbraithsituation and their dog, a world-famous surgeon at Cambridge's Addenbrooke's Hospital who hosts a popular medical television programmeBeagle, 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 theftslowing down any time soon, assuming it will be a relatively easy despite being sixteen and straightforward case – little does he know, he's about to enter a world of deceit 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 leak from the split and 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

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Jester_Forever|title=Forever After: a dark comedy|author=Colin TaylorDavid 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.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1683691172|title=The Life of William Shakespeare's Much Ado About Mean Girls|author=Ian 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 Scilly Sergeantreal 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=William 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 -->*[[image:Phinn_Virgin.jpg|left|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1444779400/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] ===[[The Virgin Mary's Got Nits by Gervase Phinn]]==isbn=1473669588 [[image:4.5star.jpg|linktitle=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Humour|Humour]], [[:Category:Anthologies|Anthologies]] Christmas in our house is the time we tend to get on a plane and head to either sun or snow, anywhere that is far, far away from the madness at home, last minute dashes to the shops on Christmas Eve, and food cupboard stockpiles that would imply supermarkets are shutting for a month, nor a mere 36 hours. But I do remember the feeling of Christmas when I was younger, back when it was magical, and back when you knew exactly what the season would bring with carol concerts and school nativities and Christmas parties. This book is an anthology of those moments, 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> {{newreviewFalling Short|author= Kieran Crowley|title= ShootLex Coulton|rating= 4|genre= CrimeHumour|summary= I make something of Lex Coulton's debut novel is a habit of being late to discover good writersstory about mistakes, failures, in this case getting to Crowley after he is no longer with usand relationships. The result main protagonist, Frances Pilgrim, is that what a sixth form English teacher who has recently fallen out with her best friend Jackson, a work colleague and is billed as ''an F.X. Shepherd mystery'' grappling with all the optimism of there being more to come has the poignancy of being, if not the last of a short line, certainly one increasingly eccentric behaviour of a fewher mother. F.X. Shepherd – he doesn't like his first name and prefers just "Shepherd" This relationship is, technically, a columnist. He's been sacked complicated 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 Shepherdthe fact that Frances'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 stufffather disappeared at sea when she was five years old. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783296518</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Gray Jolliffe1683690133|title=The First Ever Christmas: And Who to BlameMy Lady's Choosing|author=Kitty Curran and Larissa Zageris|rating=54

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

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

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

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