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[[Category:New Reviews|Humour]]__NOTOC__{{Frontpage|author=Dean Koontz|title=HumourThe Bad Weather Friend|rating=4.5|genre=Paranormal|summary=Benny is having a terrifically bad day. He loses his job, he loses his fiancee, and his house gets trashed. Oh, and someone has delivered a really weird, disturbing coffin-sized object to his home, and it's possible that whoever or whatever was inside is the thing that has trashed his house! The thing is, Benny is the very last person to deserve all this bad luck. He is a nice person. A really nice person. So fortunately for Benny it turns out that the delivery to his house is a new friend, a bad weather friend called Spike, who has been sent to help him since Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for being a good person. Spike is going to take care of Benny, and will certainly take care of Benny's enemies, if he, Benny, and Harper (a waitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny's wild adventure) can figure out who exactly they are.|isbn=1662500491__NOTOC__}}{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Bob Servant and Neil Forsyth1529153050|title=Bob Servant: Hero of DundeeBritain's Best Political Cartoons 2022|author=Tim Benson|rating=3.54
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|summary=After [[Delete This at Your Peril: One Man's Fearless Exchanges with Seeking some light relief from the Internet Spammers by Bob Servant|bursting into public consciousness]] as the scourge of email spammerscurrent political turmoil which is coming to seem more and more like an adrenaline sport, Broughty FerryI was nudged towards ''Britain's resident polymath Bob Servant has returned. This time, he expands upon the colourful life only hinted at in his previous oeuvre, Delete this at Your Peril. And what a life it has been. He steers us from his humble beginnings, his broken family and traumatic schooldays, through the rise and fall Best Political Cartoons of his window cleaning empire, and his role in Dundee2022''s brutal cheeseburger wars. Along the way, Sharp eyes will have noted that we witness his struggles with, respectively, women ('skirt'), his simpleton sidekick Frank, and re not yet through the year: the demon drinkcartoons run from 4 September 2021 to 31 August 2022.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841589209</amazonuk> Who can imagine what there will be to come in the 2023 edition?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=P K Munroe1785633074|title=You Can Stick ItStaggering Hubris|author=Josh Berry|rating=34.5
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|summary=Literary merit? Absolutely none! PlotMembers of Parliament like us to believe that the country is run by politicians, characterisation and all headed by the Prime minister - the ''primus inter pares'' (that other stuff you usually talk about? Nope – there's none for those of you who are Eton and Oxbridge educated) but the reality is that, either. Ah, so it's non-fiction? Well, calling it the ''factprime'' would be stretching things a little too farmovers are the special advisers - the SPADS - who are the driving force behind the government... So We are in the privileged position of having access to the memoirs of Rafe Hubris, come on thenthe man who was behind the skilful control of the Covid crisis which was completely contained by the end of 2020. What ''is'' it?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007362188</amazonuk>You might not know the name now but he will certainly be the man to watch.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Axel Scheffler0571365884|title=How to Keep My Mess is a Pet SquirrelBit of Life: Adventures in Anxiety|author=Georgia Pritchett
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|genre=HumourAutobiography|summary=SoGeorgia Pritchett has always been anxious, how do you keep even as a pet squirrel? child. Well, She would worry about whether the monsters under the bed were comfortable: it was the simple answer is that you don'tsort of life where if she had nothing to worry about she would become anxious but such occasions were few and far between. They're wild animals and not at all suitable for keeping in captivityOn a visit to a therapist, as an adult, but accepted thinking didn't always run that way. It when she was whilst he completely unable to speak about what was dipping into wrong with her it was suggested that she should write it down and ''The ChildrenMy Mess is a Bit of a Life: Adventures in Anxiety's Encyclopaedia'' of 1910 that Axel Scheffler came across a small but indispensible guide to obtaining and caring for your pet squirrel. His inventive mind came up with these beautiful illustrations to accompany is the text and if you're looking for an amusing gift for an animalresult -loving adult then this book could well be the answeror so we are given to believe.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571255981</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=PJ VanstonJohn Boyne|title=CrumpThe Echo Chamber|rating=35
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=It's Kevin Crump's first day Meet George Cleverley. He is self-defined as "one of the few television personalities over the age of fifty without a lecturer at Thames Metropolitan University - an ex-polytechniccriminal record". ItHe starts this book a bit worried when his mistress tells him she's carrying his child, but then his author wife is getting her kicks with the happiest day of his lifeUkrainian partner "Strictly Come Dancing" paired her with. They have three children, and he can't wait to see all that it holdswho are a sad-sack with absolutely no social skills whatsoever, and make a difference girl who hangs around with a virtue-signalling, keyboard warrior "wokester" who wants to all his students. And then it hits him: save the relentless pettiness world's homeless with out-of authority figures-date food, and a fit young lad doing the students who can't string gay hustle thing. Add in a few other characters – therapists, lawyers, random transgender types – that all have two sentences togethervery different connections to his life, and you have something that suggests an almost farcical approach to the modern world. What suggests the lowering of standards in search of higher test scoresfarcical approach even more, so more money from foreign studentshowever, and political correctness gone (as I believe is the saying goes) madfact this is bloody funny.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1848762852</amazonuk>0857526219
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=John LennonStephen Clarke|title=In His Own Write and A Spaniard in the Works|rating=3|genre=Humour|summary=During the height of Beatlemania, John Lennon used to doodle or write short poems or nonsense stories to pass the time (and there must have been a good deal of time to pass away on tour, if only waiting for screaming fans to leave them alone and go back home). Some of them were seen by Tom Maschler, literary editor at Jonathan Cape, who encouraged him to produce more. The results were published in two very successful short books in 1964 and 1965.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099530422</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=John Lindsay|title=Emails From An AssholeSpy Who Inspired Me
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|genre=HumourGeneral Fiction|summary=Some classified ads are crying out for trolling. John Lindsay replies to them, spins them This is a yarnspoof spy story, and strings them along for as long as possible. Sometimes the advert is fairly innocuous and he emails them anyway. These are emails from an asshole, after allthat isn't about James Bond.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1402778279</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=L C Tyler|title=The Herring In The Library|rating=4 Or Ian Fleming.5|genre=Crime|summary=Tall, elegant Ethelred is But it features a gentlemanman called Ian Lemming, who dresses well and a third-rate author. Elsie, his literary agent, is short 'likes the ladies' and dumpy, and not afraid to speak her mind. It is Elsiewho works for the secret service, but in fact, who constantly assures her client he only occasionally aspires to the giddy heights planning side of being second-rate. This could be things more than the business partnership from hell, but not only do these two seem to get along, they even manage to solve crimes togetheractive service. In this Lemming finds himself put on a mission with a female spy called Margaux, and the third outing for L C Tyler's eccentric sleuthspair end up stranded in Normandy, we are provided with Margaux on a locked room mystery, a cast of possible villains of desperate mission to unearth traitors in the most stereotypical typeresistance network, and a fresh, funny tale which will make you laugh so much you'll get a stitch.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0230714684</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=A J Jacobs|title=My Experimental Life|rating=3.5|genre=Humour|summary=A J Jacobs has a reputation for setting himself onerous tasks. His first book was about reading the entire Encyclopedia Britannica; his second detailed a year spent according Lemming desperately trying to the Biblical precepts. In My Experimental Life, he recounts nine briefer episodes of living outside his comfort zone.keep up with her!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099547422</amazonuk>2952163855
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|genre=Confident ReadersLiterary Fiction|summary=Who turns off the lights at Halloween? The lights witch. What does an Australian witch ride on? A broomerang. YepWell, it's this looked very much like a joke book.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0192729063</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Nick Wadley|title=Man + Dog|rating=4.5|genre=Humour|summary=Throughout my life I've lived with dogs or deeply regretted could love from the fact that get-go, which is why I lacked a canine companionpicked my review copy up and flipped pages over several times before actually reading any of it. Watching I found things to potentially delight me each time – a dog – or better still, weird section in the interaction between dogs – is infinitely better than anything middle on television and it's sheer joy to see how man and dog interacts and how, so oftendarker stock paper, they hold a mirror up to each other.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1564785521</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=The Harvard Lampoon|title=Nightlight: A Parody of Twilight |rating=3.5|genre=Humour|summary=Most people will have heard of chapter whose number was in the worldwide phenomenon that is [[Twilight by Stephenie Meyer|Twilight]]20,000s, letters used as narrative form, and so on. The books by Stephenie Meyer and It intrigued with the film have made subterranean voice a legend man hears in wartorn Dresden that what little I knew of it mentioned, too. But you've seen the romance between vampire Edward Mullen (Robert Pattinson plays the movie role) star rating that comes with this review, and teenage schoolgirl Bella Swan (Kristen Stewart)can tell that if love was on these pages, it was not actually caused by them. So what happened?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1849013330</amazonuk>1529402697
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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
|rating=4.5
|genre=Humour
|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?
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{{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
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|summary=Common opinion has it that Tilda returns to Brighton, to tidy away the television programme remains of her mother''Time Team'' did s life after her death. Whilst there, she returns to the Paradise hotel, a lot haven for the public image eccentrics and misfits. A place where people can be themselves, and let go of archaeologists – bringing thoughts that torment them out elsewhere. Little wonder that Tilda cannot forgive her mother for banishing her as a child, from this place of their holes in wonder. With the groundhelp of Queenie Malone, caring, and making them seem like excitinggregarious, interesting people Tilda begins to pick apart the tricky and uncertain relationship she had with a good way of putting their knowledge across. However it was clearly a much harder task when it came to those background artistes they have her sometimes, walking up cruel and down in Roman centurion gear, or living the historical lifestyle as a re-enactmentdistant mother.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0224077813</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=L Vaughan Spencer1683690346|title=Don't Be Needy Be SucceedyThe Con Artist|author=Fred Van Lente
|rating=4
|genre=Humour
|summary=Are you underperforming in your business Comic-Cons are a place of wonder and personal lives? Do you underestimate the importance of good hair sanctuary for many people, and moisturised skin in achieving your life goals? Are you stumbling through life in a Fastwhen Comic book artist Mike Mason arrives at San Diego Comic-Moving Business Environment (FMBE) without a motivational mantra to guide you? Then you need this book. As Con, he''The A to Zee s looking for both that and sanctuary with other fans and creators, plus the chance of Motivitality''maybe, just maybe reuniting with his ex. However, when his rival is found dead, this Mike is a dictionary forced to navigate every dark corner of achievement the con in order to clear his name – from cosplay flash mobs and intrusive fans to zombie obstacle courses – Mike must prove his innocence and, in doing so, may just unravel a man who can teach you how to succeed like dark secret behind a toothless budgielegendary industry creator.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846681634</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mark Crick 1473669588|title=Sartre's Sink: The Great Writers' Complete Book of DIYFalling Short|author=Lex Coulton
|rating=4
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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
|rating=4
|genre=Humour
|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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