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[[Category:New Reviews|Humour]]==Humour==__NOTOC__ {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Valerie Thomas and Korky PaulDean Koontz|title=Winnie's Jokes|rating=2.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Who turns off the lights at Halloween? The lights witch. What does an Australian witch ride on? A broomerang. Yep, it's a joke book.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0192729063</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Nick Wadley|title=Man + DogBad Weather Friend
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|genre=HumourParanormal|summary=Throughout my life IBenny is having a terrifically bad day. He loses his job, he loses his fiancee, and his house gets trashed. Oh, and someone has delivered a really weird, disturbing coffin-sized object to his home, and it've lived with dogs s possible that whoever or deeply regretted whatever was inside is the fact thing that I lacked has trashed his house! The thing is, Benny is the very last person to deserve all this bad luck. He is a canine companionnice person. A really nice person. Watching So fortunately for Benny it turns out that the delivery to his house is a dog – or better stillnew friend, a bad weather friend called Spike, the interaction between dogs – who has been sent to help him since Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for being a good person. Spike is infinitely better than anything on television going to take care of Benny, and itwill certainly take care of Benny's sheer joy to see how man and dog interacts and howenemies, if he, so oftenBenny, and Harper (a waitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny's wild adventure) can figure out who exactly they hold a mirror up to each otherare.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1564785521</amazonuk>1662500491
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=The Harvard Lampoon1529153050|title=Nightlight: A Parody of Twilight Britain's Best Political Cartoons 2022|author=Tim Benson|rating=3.54
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|summary=Most people will have heard of Seeking some light relief from the worldwide phenomenon that current political turmoil which is [[Twilight by Stephenie Meyer|Twilight]]coming to seem more and more like an adrenaline sport, I was nudged towards ''Britain's Best Political Cartoons of 2022''. The books by Stephenie Meyer and the film Sharp eyes will have made a legend of noted that we're not yet through the romance between vampire Edward Mullen (Robert Pattinson plays year: the movie role) and teenage schoolgirl Bella Swan (Kristen Stewart)cartoons run from 4 September 2021 to 31 August 2022.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849013330</amazonuk> Who can imagine what there will be to come in the 2023 edition?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Steven Lowe and Alan McArthur 1785633074|title=Is it Just Me or Has the Shit Hit the Fan?: Your Hilarious New Guide to Unremitting Global MiseryStaggering Hubris|author=Josh Berry|rating=34.5
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|summary=Members of Parliament like us to believe that the country is run by politicians, headed by the Prime minister - the ''The banks fell over like fat Labradors running over a wet kitchen floor.primus inter pares'' Surely (that 's for those of you who are Eton and Oxbridge educated) but the reality is that the ''prime'' movers are the special advisers - the wackiest, most inappropriate simile for SPADS - who are the credit crunch and all it has done for driving force behind the worldgovernment. You won't get any such namby-pamby animal likenesses from these authors, instead with quite a potty mouth on them they will lambast We are in the privileged position of having access to the modern worldmemoirs of Rafe Hubris, the entire banking system, all those man who failed to see it coming, and those millions just seemingly waiting for us all to revert to high-interest, high-risk, high-lending capitalism, so they can get back on was behind the skilful control of the Covid crisis which was completely contained by the end of 2020. You might not know the expenses train, and back up name now but he will certainly be the rich listsman to watch.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847443656</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=The Vampire Miles ProctorJohn Boyne|title=The New Vampire's HandbookEcho Chamber|rating=3.5|genre=HumourGeneral Fiction|summary=I shall start with Meet George Cleverley. He is self-defined as "one of the few television personalities over the age of fifty without a predictioncriminal record". I will not become He starts this book a vampire, for this imminent Hallowebit worried when his mistress tells him she'ens carrying his child, any festive fancy dress parties, or indeed for life as but then his author wife is getting her kicks with the lifeless undeadUkrainian partner "Strictly Come Dancing" paired her with. I will not need tips on filing my fangsThey have three children, or how who are a sad-sack with absolutely no social skills whatsoever, a girl who hangs around with a virtue-signalling, keyboard warrior "wokester" who wants to divert attention from save the fact I cannot eat human world's homeless with out-of-date food at dinner parties, and a fit young lad doing the gay hustle thing. Me and my reflection Add in mirrors will remain intact. But for those of you reading this at nighta few other characters – therapists, somewherelawyers, flameproof cape at hand, with your distaste of garlicrandom transgender types – that all have two very different connections to his life, publicity and presumably you have something that suggests an almost farcical approach to the modern world. What suggests the anaemicfarcical approach even more, however, is the fact this is the sterling how-to lifestyle guidebloody funny.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0224086464</amazonuk>0857526219
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=David O'Doherty, Claudia O'Doherty and Mike AhernStephen Clarke|title=100 Facts About PandasThe Spy Who Inspired Me|rating=3.54|genre=HumourGeneral Fiction|summary=Sometimes the title says it all - this This is a book with 100 facts spoof spy story, that isn't about pandasJames Bond. Sometimes you need to note Or Ian Fleming. But it features a man called Ian Lemming, who dresses well and 'likes the author too - David Oladies'Doherty won an Edinburgh Comedy Awardand who works for the secret service, so this is but in the planning side of things more than the active service. Lemming finds himself put on a mission with a book of female spy called Margaux, and the pair end up stranded in Normandy, with Margaux on a 100 silly desperate mission to unearth traitors in the resistance network, and untrue facts about pandas.Lemming desperately trying to keep up with her!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0224086324</amazonuk>2952163855
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Richard Horne Afonso Cruz and Rahul Bery (translator)|title=A is for ArmageddonKokoschka's Doll
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|genre=HumourLiterary Fiction|summary=The world Well, this looked very much like a book I could love from the get-go, which is definitely going why I picked my review copy up and flipped pages over several times before actually reading any of it. I found things to hell potentially delight me each time – a weird section in the middle on darker stock paper, a handcartchapter whose number was in the 20,000s, letters used as narrative form, and so on. We're only just preventing lethal global warming by having It intrigued with the subterranean voice a credit crunch man hears in wartorn Dresden that has prevented a lot what little I knew of big building, air travelit mentioned, and consumerismtoo. The population is getting so obese there is no room for any more of us - But you've seen the star rating that comes with this review, and add can tell that to the exploding population statisticsif love was on these pages, and it's never going to look betterwas not actually caused by them. And don't get me started on where all the bees have gone...So what happened?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0224086197</amazonuk>1529402697
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=James MayB08KKQ85FN|title=Car Fever: Dispatches From Behind The WheelBut Never For Lunch|author=Sandra Aragona
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|genre=LifestyleShort Stories|summary=Now, way back when I was younger, and watched TV ''If a woman approaching the menopause can be likened to a lotRottweiler in lipstick, I am sure I remember Top Gear as being an Ambassador nearing retirement resembles a consumer programme. How times change. These days I am sure they destroy more cars than they review, and pampered peacock about to be released into the three main people from the show are approaching superstar statuscompany of carrion crows or, with their amenable personalities, awkward wardrobe choices and trenchant laddish charms. They've sprung their media entities from out of more to the studiopoint, into other TV programmes, and about to discover the real world of journalism, with chatty columns in the broadsheets allowing them free rein to witter to their heartbus timetables and paying his own gas bills.'s desire. And here, in one grandiloquent volume, and in time for Christmas, are many of James May's desires.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340994533</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Harry HillB08GFSK2WZ|title=Tim The Tiny Horse At LargeKarma Trap|author=Lisette Boyd
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|genre=HumourWomen's Fiction|summary=ItGeorge Jackson is thirty-three years old, absolutely gorgeous to look at - and single. She's been a while since Tim not had sex for eight months and Flyshe's [[Tim stuck in the Tiny Horse by Harry Hill|last adventures]], karma trap: an awful lot of bad luck is being visited on her and changes are afoot in Timshe has a real talent for attracting drama. Her life's tiny worldchaotic: Fly is getting married she dealt with the leak from the shower by putting something down at the bottom of the stairs to his girlfriendabsorb the water - then the shower fell through the roof whilst she was in it and left her, stark naked, staring at the pervy postman. Tim She only has to take her mother's dog out for a little worried because they've only known each other walk for her to end up with dog poo spattered across her face - and a weekphoto being taken by someone who shares it around the office. The marriage goes ahead}} {{Frontpage|author=David C Mason|title=Pandora's Gardener|rating=3|genre=Crime|summary= John Cranston is a gardener, and Tim finds himself kicking his heelsalthough what he did before he became a gardener, so he gets a petclaims, is classified. And so the brief episodes That is just as well because he is about to be caught up in a criminal / spy / terrorist plot, where only he can save the life of a horse who lives in a matchbox continueday.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0571244157</amazonuk>0956180523
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Spike MilliganJester_Forever|title=The Magical World of Milligan|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Some people you just have to love. It's the law. Spike Milligan was always fantastic, and he's much missed. He's got the perfect mix of nonsense, heart, and surreal humour. He speaks to people of all ages, and he's just plain lovely. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1905264844</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Sam Savage|title=The Cry of the Sloth|rating=3.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=Meet Andrew Whittaker. In some untold time of recent American history, he is forced through a failed marriage and an artistic temperament at odds with so many other people, to let properties to tenants he does not like, for $120 Forever After: a month. The lodgers might not like the state of the buildings - ceilings falling through and so on - but that's another matter. He would much prefer to be left alone in front of his little Olivetti typewriter and create art. He runs a literary journal, of a kind, called "Soap", which no-one likes, no-one reads (and often, with dodgy, cheap printing, no-one could physically read it anyway), and which makes him poorer in time, money and spirit.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0297856499</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewdark comedy|author=Christopher Moore|title=You SuckDavid Jester
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|genre=HumourHorror|summary=You know that old adage about books and covers? Well this Michael Holland is a case in pointcocky and brash young man who dies and gets made the offer of his lifetime; immortality. The title isn't greatWe follow Michael, but the cover design for the paperback imprint is, like, duh!a grim reaper and his friends, the pits. It is so uncool…so unrep-resent-ative of the book. This is not Chip (a cocktail thing. Not even stoner tooth fairy) and Naff (a "Bloody Mary" thing. Well, except for stoner in the tiny bit that is, but you'll discover that records department) as they grapple with their long lives and finding a clean surface to sit on in due coursetheir flat.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841498092</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Hugh Murr and Sid Nigtures 1683691172|title=Cyber Sign OffsWilliam Shakespeare's Much Ado About Mean Girls|author=Ian Doescher|rating=2.5
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|summary=I admit I had the wrong end of the stick when it came to this bookA long time ago, before I opened it at least. I had assumed it was in a collection of real-life on-line signatures - we've all seen themgalaxy far away, those straplines people have on all their forum posts. The obvious response would have been along the lines of 'fair enoughStar Wars films were crunched up against Shakespeare, but why is this and the marriage seemed a book perfectly suitable one. So much so – so easily did the plots and characters converse in this day Shakespearean dialogue, and agebehave with Shakespearean stage directions – that the producers tried again, and not a website?with [[William Shakespeare's Get Thee Back to the Future! by Ian Doescher|Back to the Future]] no less. And that worked. But nosimultaneously they put a real test out. A film I can't even really remember seeing was transcribed into the original Elizabethan lingo. This is a collection of dialogues between two people - shall we call them Sue deNim and Allie ByeA cult following I had never followed whatsoever was given the brand new, yet oh so ancient, who have a line or two dressing. Here was the true challenge – would I manage to say to each otherenjoy this, and a made-up name (sorry, make that May Dupp-Name) with which to sign it off. Much jolly nonsense ensues.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1904312497</amazonuk>based on little foreknowledge? Oh damn those shiny gold stars for letting the game away…
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tim Fitzhigham 168369094X|title=All at Sea: One Man. One Bathtub. One Very Bad Idea: Conquering William Shakespeare's Get Thee Back to the Channel in a Piece of PlumbingFuture!|author=Ian Doescher
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|summary=The word ''Twitter'' doesn't occur A long time ago, in a publishing house far away, [[:Category:Ian Doescher|someone]] thought it wonderfully wacky to rewrite the story of Star Wars in Joe Stretch's vocabularyShakespearean pentameter, but that's what his book is aboutcolliding two entirely different genres and styles in such a clever way they seemed perfectly suited. Life It was then duly repeated for all the other films in the blogospheremain Star Wars cycle, massively exaggerated, where people donand clearly someone't leave s buffing their desks but nevertheless come together (but never literally) in satisfying their deepestquills ready for Episode Nine, darkest desires. If the title of which became public knowledge the day before I've made it sound even faintly exciting, believe me, Joe Stretch is a fantasist with realist tendencieswrite. What he is after is laughter; what he produces is a virtual simulacrum. Sniggery-pokery In the hiatus, jiggery-jokeryhowever, he tinkers the effort has been made to see if the same shtick works with the twilight zone of a future-scenario whereother texts, for reasons beyond all understanding, some robotic and literal Dickhead (i.e. a man with a dick fixed to his forehead – I kid you not) decides to target a few selected humans for a make-over riff on other seemingly unlikely source materials in his own imageiambs. Given that virtual worlds exist And could we have anything more suitably unsuitable-seeming than Back to pull in punters who don't like themselves in the real oneFuture, with its tales of time travel, bullying, and their main purpose is to make money, one's only question must be: whyparent/child strife like no other?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099532077</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Michael Marr1473669065|title=Three JumpersQueenie Malone's Paradise Hotel|author=Ruth Hogan
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|summary=Copper was one Tilda returns to Brighton, to tidy away the remains of a litter of dogs born her mother's life after her death. Whilst there, she returns to the Paradise hotel, a stray bitch haven for eccentrics and who was 'adopted' by Lady Annabel Goldsmith - or might it misfits. A place where people can be the other way round?. Here he tells his story in his own words as transcribed for him by his owner. He's got his own priorities – themselves, and obedience is not one let go of thoughts that torment them – along with a roving spiritelsewhere. It's perhaps fortunate Little wonder that he's Tilda cannot forgive her mother for banishing her as a dog as child, from this allows you place of wonder. With the help of Queenie Malone, caring, and gregarious, Tilda begins to call him 'cheeky' pick apart the tricky and 'charming'. If he was a human being 'randy' uncertain relationship she had with her sometimes cruel and 'arrogant' would be two of the first words which came to minddistant mother.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0751538205</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tim Moore1683690346|title=I Believe in Yesterday: My Adventures in Living HistoryThe Con Artist|author=Fred Van Lente
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|summary=Common opinion has it that the television programme ''Time Team'' did Comic-Cons are a lot place of wonder and sanctuary for the public image of archaeologists – bringing them out of their holes in the groundmany people, and making them seem like excitingwhen Comic book artist Mike Mason arrives at San Diego Comic-Con, interesting people he's looking for both that and sanctuary with a good way other fans and creators, plus the chance of putting their knowledge acrossmaybe, just maybe reuniting with his ex. However it was clearly a much harder task , when it came his rival is found dead, Mike is forced to navigate every dark corner of the con in order to clear his name – from cosplay flash mobs and intrusive fans to those background artistes they have sometimeszombie obstacle courses – Mike must prove his innocence and, walking up and down in Roman centurion geardoing so, or living the historical lifestyle as may just unravel a dark secret behind a re-enactmentlegendary industry creator.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0224077813</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=L Vaughan Spencer1473669588|title=Don't Be Needy Be Succeedy|rating=4|genre=Humour|summary=Are you underperforming in your business and personal lives? Do you underestimate the importance of good hair and moisturised skin in achieving your life goals? Are you stumbling through life in a Fast-Moving Business Environment (FMBE) without a motivational mantra to guide you? Then you need this book. As ''The A to Zee of Motivitality'', this is a dictionary of achievement from a man who can teach you how to succeed like a toothless budgie.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846681634</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFalling Short|author=Mark Crick |title=Sartre's Sink: The Great Writers' Complete Book of DIYLex Coulton
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|summary=''SartreLex Coulton's Sink'' comprises fourteen short debut novel is a story parodies of some of the world's best known writers – the twist being that the stories are all about undertaking some mundane DIY task such as tiling a bathroom (Dostoevsky) or reglazing a window (Milan Kundera). So far it sounds a bit like some pretentious Oxbridge student twaddle. You can just imagine how the idea came up over an over-ripe Brie and an underrated bottle of 1963 Taylor's port. It also rather smacks of that Radio 4 programme which I detest with an absolute passion - I can't even stand writing its name, ugh - ''Quote Unquote''mistakes, in which parodies do featurefailures, read out by smug self-congratulatory writer darlings (you can tell I don't like it, can't you?)and relationships. HoweverThe main protagonist, dear readersFrances Pilgrim, this book is rather enjoyable and I speak as someone a sixth form English teacher who is rather less versed in the writings of this famous lot than I care to admit.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847080472</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Eric Nakagawa|title=I Can Has Cheezburger |rating=4|genre=Pets|summary=''I Can Has Cheezburger'', is a clever and witty anthology of some of the has recently fallen out with her best pictures and captions from the fantastic [http://icanhascheezburger.com/ lolcats website] of the same name. The site has been growing in popularity in recent monthsfriend Jackson, and so it was inevitable that a book would soon hit the shelves. Choosing which pics to include in the book could not have been an easy task, work colleague and some of the old favourites are there, alongside some less well known ones.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340977574</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Ian Crofton|title=History Without the Boring Bits|rating=5|genre=History|summary=I was never one for history, and in fact left is grappling with the dregs increasingly eccentric behaviour of a history teacher in tatters when I scraped through with a Dher mother. Still, history This relationship is an odd thing – written complicated by the winners of course, and annoyingly biased in my mind towards the plain. Therefact that Frances's no real reason to remember the order of Henry VIII's six wives, but we can only relish the one credited with polydactylism, a third nipple and whatnot (the second one, in fact – whoever that father disappeared at sea when she was)five years old.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847243746</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jim Holt1683690133|title=Stop Me If YouMy Lady've Heard Thiss Choosing|author=Kitty Curran and Larissa Zageris
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|summary=As far as I can rememberYou are a lass of twenty-eight. Plucky, my first time penniless and in print was when I submitted some jokes Regency-era London the race is on to find a charity's themed joke collectionsuitable suitor - or else doom yourself to life as an eternal spinster. Before thenAlong your journey, some of my first actions as you'll be accompanied by Lady Evangeline Youngblood - a fiesty noble eager to save you from a child might have been laughinglife alone, and what is cuter in fired by a baby than that? But why was that infant laughing – he didnrogueish sense for adventure. When it comes to suitors though, you't ll have a joke he could getto 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, surely?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184668109X</amazonuk>it's clear this isn't going to be an easy decision...
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=P G Wodehouse Stibbe_Xmas|title=Joy in the MorningAn Almost Perfect Christmas|author=Nina Stibbe
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|summary=''Joy in Christmas – the Morning'' is another novel from Ptime of traditional trauma.GYou only have to think about the turkey for that – once upon a time it was leaving it sat on the downstairs loo to defrost overnight, and if that failed the hair-dryer shoved inside it treatment was your next best bet. WodehouseNowadays it's all having to make sure it's wonderful series of books about Bertram Wooster suitably free-range and organic – but not too organic that you can go and visit it, and Jeevesget too friendly with it to want to eat it. Bertie Christmas, though, is of course also a young gentleman time of inherited means and no present occupationgreat boons. He is It's cash in hand for a good humoured lot of plump people who can hire red suits and well-meant chapbeards, however clearly not it was always a godsend for postmen with all the smartest tool in the shed. Bertie seems thank-you letters to have aunties you saw twice a talent of getting himself into trouble but decade that is where Jeevesyour parents made you write out in long-hand as a child, his loyal, educated and painfully clever butler comes to his rescue. Jeeves is irreplaceable when it comes to saving Bertie from whatever creativeas for the makers of Meltis Newberry Fruits – well, complicated did they even try and incredibly funny situations Wodehouse puts his characters through.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099513765</amazonuk>sell them any other time of the year?
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|summary=American author George Saunders is known for his short stories and fictionA long time ago, in a galaxy far away, there was a man called William Shakespeare, but he is also who was able to create a journalist series of dramatic histories full of machinations most foul, rulers most evil and rebellious heroes and heroines most sturdy. You may or may not have noticed the cinematic version of his original stage play for publications such as ''The GuardianForce Doth Awaken'', ''The New Yorker Magazine'' but here at last we get the actual script, complete with annoying-in-different-ways-to-before droids anew, returning heroes from elsewhere in his oeuvre, and ''GQ''people keeping it in the family til it hurts. And if you need further encouragement, don''The Brain-Dead Megaphone'' is t forget his first collection audience only demanded three parts of essays and itHenry VI – here the series is so popular we's an interesting proposition: sixteen pieces ranging from travel writing, literary appreciation, political essays, re on to surrealist short fiction.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0747594260</amazonuk>part seven – surely making this over twice as good…
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