Changes

[[Category:New Reviews|Humour]]==Humour==__NOTOC__ {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Carl McInerneyDean Koontz|title=The Funniest Football Joke Book EverBad Weather Friend|rating=34.5|genre=Confident ReadersParanormal|summary=Who scored Benny 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's possible that whoever or whatever was inside is the most goals in thing that has trashed his house! The thing is, Benny is the Greek Mythology League? The centaur forwardvery last person to deserve all this bad luck. He is a nice person. Badoom boom tshhhh A really nice person. It's So fortunately for Benny it turns out that the delivery to his house is a football joke booknew friend, packed 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 the gills with all sorts take care of cheesiness Benny, and silliness. Funniest ever? Perhaps notwill certainly take care of Benny's enemies, if he, Benny, but itand Harper (a waitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny's not too badwild adventure) can figure out who exactly they are.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1849391114</amazonuk>1662500491

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Paul Magrs1529153050|title=HellBritain's BellesBest Political Cartoons 2022|author=Tim Benson|rating=3.54

|summary=The idea behind this series of novels Seeking some light relief from the current political turmoil which is quite enchanting coming to seem more and amusing. Frankensteinmore like an adrenaline sport, I was nudged towards ''Britain's daughter is living and sleuthing in Whitby, ably aided and abetted by her sidekick, the enigmatic Effie, and a growing menagerie Best Political Cartoons of younger accomplices, namely Michael and Penny2022''. Whilst the original idea showed huge promise, I felt Sharp eyes will have noted that the author has rather overdone it in terms of output, in his desire to capitalise on his original success. Book two in the series was quite disappointing, relying on sensationalism rather than adequate plot and character development. Book three was an improvement-and Iwe'm delighted to report that this, re not yet through the fourth book in year: the series, shows him returning cartoons run from 4 September 2021 to form with the promise we saw in the first of the series31 August 2022.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0755346467</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Valerie Thomas and Korky Paul|title=Winnie's Jokes|rating=2.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary= Who turns off can imagine what there will be to come in the lights at Halloween2023 edition? The lights witch. What does an Australian witch ride on? A broomerang. Yep, it's a joke book.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0192729063</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Nick Wadley1785633074|title=Man + DogStaggering Hubris|author=Josh Berry

|summary=Throughout my life IMembers of Parliament like us to believe that the country is run by politicians, headed by the Prime minister - the ''primus inter pares'' (that've lived with dogs or deeply regretted s for those of you who are Eton and Oxbridge educated) but the fact reality is that I lacked a canine companionthe ''prime'' movers are the special advisers - the SPADS - who are the driving force behind the government. Watching a dog – or better stillWe are in the privileged position of having access to the memoirs of Rafe Hubris, the interaction between dogs – is infinitely better than anything on television and it's sheer joy to see how man and dog interacts and how, so often, they hold a mirror up 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 each otherwatch.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1564785521</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=The Harvard Lampoon0571365884|title=NightlightMy Mess is a Bit of Life: A Parody of Twilight Adventures in Anxiety|author=Georgia Pritchett|rating=3.54|genre=HumourAutobiography|summary=Most people will have heard 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 the worldwide phenomenon 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 therapist, as 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 ''My Mess is [[Twilight by Stephenie Meyer|Twilight]]. The books by Stephenie Meyer and the film have made a legend Bit of a Life: Adventures in Anxiety'' is the romance between vampire Edward Mullen (Robert Pattinson plays the movie role) and teenage schoolgirl Bella Swan (Kristen Stewart)result - or so we are given to believe.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849013330</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Steven Lowe and Alan McArthur John Boyne|title=Is it Just Me or Has the Shit Hit the Fan?: Your Hilarious New Guide to Unremitting Global MiseryThe Echo Chamber|rating=35|genre=HumourGeneral Fiction|summary=''The banks fell over like fat Labradors running Meet George Cleverley. He is self-defined as "one of the few television personalities over the age of fifty without a wet kitchen floorcriminal record".He starts this book a bit worried when his mistress tells him she'' Surely that s carrying his child, but then his author wife is getting her kicks with the wackiestUkrainian partner "Strictly Come Dancing" paired her with. They have three children, who are a sad-sack with absolutely no social skills whatsoever, a girl who hangs around with a virtue-signalling, most inappropriate simile for the credit crunch and all it has done for keyboard warrior "wokester" who wants to save the world. You won't get any such nambys homeless with out-of-pamby animal likenesses from these authorsdate food, instead with quite and a potty mouth on them they will lambast fit young lad doing the modern worldgay hustle thing. Add in a few other characters – therapists, the entire banking systemlawyers, random transgender types – that all those who failed have two very different connections to see it cominghis life, and those millions just seemingly waiting for us all you have something that suggests an almost farcical approach to revert to high-interestthe modern world. What suggests the farcical approach even more, high-riskhowever, high-lending capitalism, so they can get back on is the expenses train, and back up the rich listsfact this is bloody funny.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847443656</amazonuk>0857526219

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Eoin ColferStephen Clarke|title=And Another Thing ... Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Part Six of Three (Hitchhikers Guide 6) The Spy Who Inspired Me|rating=3.54|genre=Science General Fiction|summary=Of all This is a spoof spy story, that isn't about James Bond. Or Ian Fleming. But it features a man called Ian Lemming, who dresses well and 'likes the big books announced ladies' and who works for this yearthe secret service, this one must have raised but in the planning side of things more eyebrows than manythe active service. Why try and write Lemming finds himself put on a mission with a new Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy bookfemale spy called Margaux, when way before and the pair endup stranded in Normandy, its creator Douglas Adams was proving quite hopeless at such with Margaux on a task? And why approach an Irishman, Eoin Colfer, when desperate mission to unearth traitors in the originals - tempered with their humour which could only be described as Monty Python doing a sci-fi Terry Pratchettresistance network, and with their cups of tea and dressing gowns, could only be described as very English? Well the answer is most evident - Colfer is a world-beater when it comes Lemming desperately trying to knocking keep up a story.with her!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0718155149</amazonuk>2952163855

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=The Vampire Miles ProctorAfonso Cruz and Rahul Bery (translator)|title=The New VampireKokoschka's Handbook|rating=3.5|genre=Humour|summary=I shall start with a prediction. I will not become a vampire, for this imminent Hallowe'en, any festive fancy dress parties, or indeed for life as the lifeless undead. I will not need tips on filing my fangs, or how to divert attention from the fact I cannot eat human food at dinner parties. Me and my reflection in mirrors will remain intact. But for those of you reading this at night, somewhere, flameproof cape at hand, with your distaste of garlic, publicity and presumably the anaemic, this is the sterling how-to lifestyle guide.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0224086464</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=David O'Doherty, Claudia O'Doherty and Mike Ahern|title=100 Facts About Pandas|rating=3.5|genre=Humour|summary=Sometimes the title says it all - this is a book with 100 facts about pandas. Sometimes you need to note the author too - David O'Doherty won an Edinburgh Comedy Award, so this is a book of a 100 silly and untrue facts about pandas.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0224086324</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Richard Horne |title=A is for ArmageddonDoll

|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

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=James MayB08KKQ85FN|title=Car Fever: Dispatches From Behind The WheelBut Never For Lunch|author=Sandra Aragona

|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>}}

{{newreview|author=Jane Austen You don't get many better opening sentences than that, do you? We first met His Excellency and The Ambassador's Wife in [[Sorting the Priorities: Ambassadress and Seth Grahame-Smith Beagle Survive Diplomacy by Sandra Aragona|title=Pride Sorting the Priorities]] and Prejudice we learned what it was like to be moved around countries like accompanying baggage by the Italian Government but the time has come for HE to retires and Zombies|rating=4.5|genre=Humour|summary=Ah, the benefits for Sandra Aragona to a good book become The Wife of a classic first lineFormer Ambassador.. 'Call me Ishmael.' 'It was a bright cold day They have left The Career and settled in April, and the clocks were striking thirteenRome.' Who can forget Iain BanksWell ' settled'It was rather overstates the day my grandmother exploded'? Or those timeless words by Jane Austensituation and their dog, Beagle, 'It is a truth universally acknowledged that a zombie in possession has no intention of brains must be in want of more brainsslowing down any time soon, despite being sixteen and deaf.'|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1594743347</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Harry HillB08GFSK2WZ|title=Tim The Tiny Horse At LargeKarma Trap|author=Lisette Boyd

|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]], and changes are afoot in Tim's tiny worldkarma trap: Fly an awful lot of bad luck is getting married to his girlfriendbeing visited on her and she has a real talent for attracting drama. Tim Her life's a little worried because they've only known each other for a week. The marriage goes ahead, and Tim finds himself kicking his heels, so he gets a pet. And so chaotic: she dealt with the leak from the brief episodes in shower by putting something down at the life bottom of a horse who lives in a matchbox continue.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571244157</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Spike Milligan|title=The Magical World of Milligan|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Some people you just have the stairs to love. It's absorb the water - then the shower fell through the law. Spike Milligan roof whilst she was always fantastic, in it and he's much missed. He's got the perfect mix of nonsenseleft her, heartstark naked, and surreal humourstaring at the pervy postman. He speaks She only has to people of all ages, and hetake her mother's just plain lovelydog 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 office. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1905264844</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sam SavageDavid C Mason|title=The Cry of the SlothPandora's Gardener|rating=3.5|genre=General FictionCrime|summary=Meet Andrew Whittaker. In some untold time of recent American historyJohn Cranston is a gardener, although what he is forced through did before he became a failed marriage and an artistic temperament at odds with so many other peoplegardener, to let properties to tenants he does not likeclaims, for $120 a monthis classified. 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 That is just as well because he is about to be left alone caught up in front of his little Olivetti typewriter and create art. He runs a literary journalcriminal / spy / terrorist plot, 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 spiritwhere only he can save the day.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0297856499</amazonuk>0956180523

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Christopher MooreJester_Forever|title=You SuckForever After: a dark comedy|author=David Jester

|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>

 {{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

|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…

 {{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

|summary=There can be few people who have written eighty books without me even having picked up one A long time ago, in a publishing house far away, [[:Category:Ian Doescher|someone]] thought it wonderfully wacky to rewrite the story of themStar Wars in Shakespearean pentameter, colliding two entirely different genres and styles in such a clever way they seemed perfectly suited. At leastIt was then duly repeated for all the other films in the main Star Wars cycle, and at lastclearly someone's buffing their quills ready for Episode Nine, the title of which became public knowledge the day before I have redressed that fault in write. In the hiatus, however, the effort has been made to see if the case of Simon Brettsame shtick works with other texts, and have come to the conclusion there are 79 more that will be worth investigatingriff on other seemingly unlikely source materials in iambs. Here And could we meet for have anything more suitably unsuitable-seeming than Back to the first Future, with its tales of time Blotto (posh idiotic son of a dowager duchess) and Twinks (posh brilliant genius sister to Blotto)travel, their family, their surroundingsbullying, and the corpse inconveniently disturbing a dinner party.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1845299353<parent/amazonuk>child strife like no other?

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Karl Pilkington1473669065|title=Karlology|rating=4|genre=Humour|summary=The Radio Five film critic Mark Kermode has a rule when reviewing comedies. If he laughs more than five times then the film deserves its billing as a comedy. If that rule was applied to Karl Pilkington's new book Karlology then it would easily fit into the category for there are laugh aplenty in this strange, amusing and charming little book.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>140533746X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Joe Stretch|title=Wildlife|rating=3|genre=Humour|summary=The word ''Twitter'' doesn't occur in Joe Stretch's vocabulary, but thatQueenie Malone's what his book is about. Life in the blogosphere, massively exaggerated, where people don't leave their desks but nevertheless come together (but never literally) in satisfying their deepest, darkest desires. If I've made it sound even faintly exciting, believe me, Joe Stretch is a fantasist with realist tendencies. What he is after is laughter; what he produces is a virtual simulacrum. Sniggery-pokery, jiggery-jokery, he tinkers with the twilight zone of a future-scenario where, 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 in his own image. Given that virtual worlds exist to pull in punters who don't like themselves in the real one, and their main purpose is to make money, one's only question must be: why?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099532077</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewParadise Hotel|author=Michael Marr|title=Three JumpersRuth Hogan

|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>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tim Moore1683690346|title=I Believe in Yesterday: My Adventures in Living HistoryThe Con Artist|author=Fred Van Lente

|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>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=L Vaughan Spencer1473669588|title=Don't Be Needy Be SucceedyFalling Short|author=Lex Coulton

|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 Lex Coulton''The A to Zee of Motivitality'', this s debut novel is a dictionary of achievement from a man who can teach you how to succeed like a toothless budgie.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846681634</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Mark Crick |title=Sartre's Sink: The Great Writers' Complete Book of DIY|rating=4|genre=Humour|summary=''Sartre's Sink'' comprises fourteen short 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 namemistakes, ugh - ''Quote Unquote''failures, in which parodies do feature, 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 is grappling with the Boring Bits|rating=5|genre=History|summary=I was never one for history, and in fact left 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>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jim Holt1683690133|title=Stop Me If YouMy Lady've Heard Thiss Choosing|author=Kitty Curran and Larissa Zageris

|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...

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=P G Wodehouse Stibbe_Xmas|title=Joy in the MorningAn Almost Perfect Christmas|author=Nina Stibbe

|summary=''Joy in Christmas – the Morning'' is another novel from Ptime of traditional trauma.G. Wodehouse's wonderful series of books You only have to think about Bertram Wooster and Jeeves. Bertie is the turkey for that – once upon a young gentleman of inherited means time it was leaving it sat on the downstairs loo to defrost overnight, and no present occupation. He is a good humoured and wellif that failed the hair-meant chap, however clearly not the smartest tool in the sheddryer shoved inside it treatment was your next best bet. Bertie seems Nowadays it's all having to have a talent of getting himself into trouble make sure it's suitably free-range and organic – but not too organic that is where Jeeves, his loyalyou can go and visit it, educated and painfully clever butler comes get too friendly with it to his rescue. Jeeves is irreplaceable when want to eat it comes to saving Bertie from whatever creative, complicated and incredibly funny situations Wodehouse puts his characters through.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099513765</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=P G Wodehouse|title=Thank YouChristmas, Jeeves|rating=4|genre=General Fiction|summary=Bertie Wooster was once engaged to Pauline Stoker. It didn't last very long – about forty eight hoursthough, most is of which Bertie spent in bed with course also a bad cold, if his memory serves him correctlytime of great boons. It's still embarrassing when he meets Pauline cash in hand for a lot of plump people who can hire red suits and her fatherbeards, particularly as it was the father who was responsible always a godsend for breaking off the engagement. Rather than eat at the Savoy Grill where he spotted the Stokers, he goes home to his only consolation. Bertie plays the banjo. Unfortunately, he doesn't play it very well.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099513730</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Tom Holt |title=The Better Mousetrap|rating=4 |genre=Humour|summary=I approached this book postmen with a fair degree of trepidation, as I had never heard of all the author, and wondered if, when reading the synopsis, I was about thank-you letters to embark on a Terry Pratchett type novel (and I have to say, much though I admire his achievements, I'm not aunties you saw twice a fan of Discworld!) However, my fears were unfounded, and from page one I found myself drawn into this clever and erudite novel. Not having read the preceding novels in the series did put me at a slight disadvantage, but didn't detract from my enjoyment, and has certainly ensured decade that I'll read the others your parents made you write out in the near future. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841495034</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Philip Moore |title=Utterly Ridiculous|rating=3 |genre=Humour|summary=If I learned nothing else from this book, I now know of long-hand as a new profession: aircraft cleaner. For that is the trade of Davechild, the hero of ''Utterly Ridiculous''. With little but a van and his torpid terrier Biggles, Dave roves as for the airstrips makers of southern England, titivating light aircraft.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1906221685</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=John Mole |title=I Was a Potato Oligarch: Travels and Travails in the New Russia|rating=1 |genre=Travel|summary=I remember getting this book in post, reading the title and thinking noMeltis Newberry Fruits – well, did they even though I am Russian, I will try to be unbiased and judge it like I would judge sell them any other book about a foreign country experience. I now have to regretfully admit I failed. In my defence, John Mole's focus on mocking time of the nation and country made that all too easy.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1857885090</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Clive Gifford|title=Teenage Kicks: 101 Things to Do Before You're 16|rating=3.5|genre=Humour|summary=Kids. They're bored all the time, aren't theyyear? Nothing you buy seems to have any longevity. I think they live in alternative dimension in which time passes much more slowly that it does for harassed parents. It's the only explanation. I think Clive Gifford must sympathise, because his latest book, Teenage Kicks, has a whopping 101 ideas to alleviate boredom and a clever challenge too - your bored child has to complete them all before they reach 16. At a measly £5.99, this book could represent the most wonderful value for money any parent could ever wish for.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340950617</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jon Canter Doescher_Will|title=A Short Gentleman|rating=4|genre=Humour|summary=The narrator of this spoof biography is a civil law barrister. Robert Purcell has been educated at Winchester and Oxford. He has modelled himself on his polite and restrained father, a High Court judge and, as a child, Robert maps out the components his own expected adult life – wife, two children, career – and the respect which he will gain from this, together with his undoubted intellectual superiority. At the age of eight, he writes a future WhoWilliam Shakespeare's Who entry for himself, with all the academic and professional accolades he expects to garner.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0224077740</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewForce Doth Awaken: Star Wars Part the Seventh|author=George Saunders |title=The Brain-dead MegaphoneIan Doescher

|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…

 {{newreview |title=Tim the Tiny Horse|author=Harry Hill|genre=Humour|rating=4|summary=After doing even tiny bit of research I realised that I must be the only person out there who ever read Tim the Tiny Horse having never heard of the author. Thus, I have Move on to take another reviewer's word that it's "typical Harry Hill" and will make an attempt at reviewing Tim as a stand-alone. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571229565</amazonuk>}}[[Newest LGBT Fiction Reviews]]