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[[Category:New Reviews|Humour]]==Humour==__NOTOC__{{newreview|author=Zadie Smith|title=White Teeth|rating=5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=Some books sneak up on you. Others are thrown at you from every corner of the media to the extent that you almost make a conscious decision NOT to read them, or at least, not yet. Let the furore die down. If they're still around in a few years, your subconscious whispers, maybe we'll go see what all the fuss was about. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241954576</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=David LodgeDean Koontz|title=The Campus TrilogyBad Weather Friend
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|genre=HumourParanormal|summary=Somewhere along the line the word "vintage" stopped meaning simply the wine crop of any given yearBenny is having a terrifically bad day. He loses his job, he loses his fiancee, and his house gets trashed. Oh, and started someone has delivered a really weird, disturbing coffin-sized object to mean his home, and it's possible that whoever or whatever was inside is the wine of a particularly good yearthing that has trashed his house! The thing is, and then Benny is the very last person to mean anything of deserve all this bad luck. He is a past year nice person. A really nice person. So fortunately for Benny it turns out that was (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) of outstanding qualityclearly under attack from nefarious forces for being a good person. Such Spike is the mutability going to take care of Benny, and will certainly take care of languageBenny'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. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099529130</amazonuk>1662500491
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ludwig Bechstein, Axel Sceffler and Julia Donaldson1529153050|title=The Gloomster|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=WeBritain've all been there. Finding fault with everything around us, and perhaps picking on one particular irritant that gets us so rattled, tetchy and narked all we can do is invoke "Hell and damnation!" down on all creation - including, of course, ourselves. After all, our lot is so bad it won't make anything much worse.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571274242</amazonuk>}} {{newreviews Best Political Cartoons 2022|author=Stella Gibbons|title=Conference at Cold Comfort FarmTim Benson|rating=4.5|genre=Humour|summary=There are no Starkadders at Cold Comfort Farm. To those of you who've not read Stella Gibbons' magnificient [[Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons|original novel]], this is hardly likely to be a major shock - to the Gibbons fans amongst us, though, this is chilling news indeed. And when RobertPoste's child Flora returns to the farm - now a modernised monstrosity full of members of the International Thinkers' Group – sixteen years after her original visit, the news get graver and graver, as the cows Feckless, Graceless, Pointless, and Aimless have passed away of shame due to the disgrace of the bull Big Business. With the menfolk trying to make their fortunes abroad, and the women struggling, it's left to Flora to try to save the day once again.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099528681</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Stella Gibbons|title=Cold Comfort Farm|rating=5
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|summary=Orphaned at 19, Flora Poste – a London sophisticate – Seeking some light relief from the current political turmoil which is led coming to retreat to deepest Sussex to live off her relatives the Starkadders at the aptly named Cold Comfort Farmseem more and more like an adrenaline sport, a mournful bunch who take her in as they couldnI was nudged towards 't refuse anything of 'Robert PosteBritain's childBest Political Cartoons of 2022'', but seem less than happy with having to do so. As she meets the preacher Amos, his over-sexed younger son Seth, his flighty sister Elphine, and Sharp eyes will have noted that we're not yet through the hugely memorable – if barely seen – Aunt Ada Doom, year: the first person in literature cartoons run from 4 September 2021 to 31 August 2022. Who can imagine what there will be to see 'something nasty come in the woodshed' – she resolves to take the family in hand and solve their problems.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141441593</amazonuk>2023 edition?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Philip Jose Farmer1785633074|title=The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: The Peerless PeerStaggering Hubris|author=Josh Berry
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|summary=Wilt Members of Parliament like us to believe that the country is stuck in a job he doesnrun by politicians, headed by the Prime minister - the ''primus inter pares''t want – teaching a subject he(that's not keen on to people for whom he has no affection – at one those of you who are Eton and Oxbridge educated) but the reality is that the ''prime'' movers are the special advisers - the new UniversitiesSPADS - who are the driving force behind the government. We used to know them as technical colleges. But he can't afford to lose it because of are in the expense privileged position of keeping having access to the quads at an expensive school and memoirs of maintaining his snobbish wifeRafe Hubris, Eva. It's Eva though the man who signs him up for a job in was behind the summer holidays – tutoring skilful control of the step-son of a local aristocrat in Covid crisis which was completely contained by the hope end of getting him into Cambridge – and particularly Porterhouse College2020. It's You might not long before Wilt discovers that know the boy totes a gun and shoots at anything which moves – or even doesn't move – and that name now but he's an idiot who would probably struggle to get a bus will certainly be the man to Cambridgewatch.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099493136</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Alain Mabanckou0571365884|title=Memoirs My Mess is a Bit of a PorcupineLife: Adventures in Anxiety|author=Georgia Pritchett
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|genre=Literary FictionAutobiography|summary=The protagonist 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 this novel is an ordinary Congolese porcupine until Papa Kibandi performs an ancient ritual involving 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 hallucinogenic cocktail called ''mayamvumbi''therapist, and transforms him into his son's harmful double. The insecure younger Kibandi becomes more and more embittered as his life goes onan adult, when she was completely unable to speak about what was wrong with her it was suggested that she should write it down and sends his porcupine to 'eat' anybody he feels the least bit threatened by, My Mess is a Bit of a process whereby that personLife: Adventures in Anxiety''s life essence is sucked out, killing them instantly. Over one hundred victims later and following his master's death at the hands of a vengeful baby, our narrator retires result - or so we are given to the hollow of a baobab tree where he writes this confessionalbelieve.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846687675</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Tom HoltJohn Boyne|title=Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of SausagesThe Echo Chamber
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|summary=With an uncompromising title like 'How I Became Meet George Cleverley. He is self-defined as "one of the few television personalities over the age of fifty without a Famous Novelist', criminal record". He starts this clearly isn't intended to be book a subtle book. So I can hardly complain bit worried when a cynical look at the writing industry swings raw punches in every direction. It just isnhis mistress tells him she't my sort of humours carrying his child, but equally, if you rave about 'The Office' you will likely enjoy this book far more than I have done.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849015724</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|then his author=Charles Lamb|title=Great Food: A Dissertation Upon Roast Pig and Other Essays|rating=4|genre=Cookery|summary=''A Dissertation Upon Roast Pig'' wife is getting her kicks with the Ukrainian partner "Strictly Come Dancing" paired her with. They have three children, who are a collection of foodsad-related essays from the early 19th centurysack with absolutely no social skills whatsoever, a girl who hangs around with a humorous bent. Theyvirtue-signalling, keyboard warrior "wokester" who wants to save the world're but a few pages each s homeless with out-of- date food, and a light read to bring fit young lad doing the gay hustle thing. Add in a smile few other characters – therapists, lawyers, random transgender types – that all have two very different connections to your facehis life, then on and you have something that suggests an almost farcical approach to the next little foodie treatmodern world. What suggests the farcical approach even more, however, is the fact this is bloody funny.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0241951003</amazonuk>0857526219
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=ClientsFromHell.netStephen Clarke|title=Clients From Hell|rating=4|genre=Humour|summary=Everyone who's worked as a freelancer has a story of a client from hell - that person who asked for something that was impossible, wanted it done yesterday for a fraction of the usual price, or is just plain angry about the work produced. The website [http://www.clientsfromhell.net ClientsFromHell.net] has collated a number of such stories over the years, and has now published them as a book.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0982473931</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Manu Joseph|title=Serious MenSpy Who Inspired Me
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|summary=Ayyan Mani This is a Dalitspoof spy story, an untouchable, stuck in a flat in Mumbaithat isn's slums but hoping, somehow, for a better future for his sont about James Bond. Or Ian Fleming. Working at But it features a man called Ian Lemming, who dresses well and 'likes the Insitute of Theory ladies' and Research he uses all his cunning and wiles to stay ahead who works for the secret service, but in the planning side of things more than the game amongst the Brahmin scientistsactive service. Does he have the intelligenceLemming finds himself put on a mission with a female spy called Margaux, and nervesthe pair end up stranded in Normandy, with Margaux on a desperate mission to convince everyone that his sonunearth traitors in the resistance network, against all odds, is a genius?and Lemming desperately trying to keep up with her!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1848543085</amazonuk>2952163855
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=John SaundersAfonso Cruz and Rahul Bery (translator)|title=The Vernham ChroniclesKokoschka's Doll|rating=42.5|genre=HumourLiterary Fiction|summary=Set amidst Well, this looked very much like a book I could love from the rolling British countryside around Vernbury Vale get-go, which is the little village why I picked my review copy up and flipped pages over several times before actually reading any of Vernhamit. Anyone who lives I found things to potentially delight me each time – a weird section in a village will recognise it immediately, with its cobbled streets and Tudor buildings. There was some damage during the war (which mightmiddle on darker stock paper, or might not have been down to a lighthouse folly constructed by a local landowner on his lake) but chapter whose number was in the gaps have been filled with some beautiful20, er000s, mock Tudor buildings. Almost unique and nearly beautiful letters used as the village isnarrative form, it's not the star of The Vernham Chroniclesand so on. The stars are It intrigued with the people who live subterranean voice a man hears in Vernham.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1907499598</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Martin Millar|title=The Good Fairies wartorn Dresden that what little I knew of New York|rating=4|genre=Fantasy|summary=In this fairytale of New Yorkit mentioned, the Cornish fairy King's children are living in exile, hiding in Central Park from a nasty industrial revolution back hometoo. They have friends from Ireland But you've seen the star rating that comes with themthis review, and all have the ability to startle the local squirrels. Elsewhere two innocent scallywag fairies fleeing Scotland have arrivedcan tell that if love was on these pages, and adopted a human eachit was not actually caused by them. Heather has joined up with Dinnie, the city's worst busker, a fat, alcoholic and lonely fan of TV ads for phone sex, while Morag befriends Kerry, a dying kleptomaniac beauty, just as alone for different reasons.So what happened?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0749954205</amazonuk>1529402697
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Gervase PhinnB08KKQ85FN|title=Twinkle, Twinkle, Little StarsBut Never For Lunch|author=Sandra Aragona
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|genre=HumourShort Stories|summary=I spent many of my teenage years reading James Herriot's books, and I found that this collection of anecdotes and poems by Gervase Phinn had 'If a real flavour of Herriot about it. Perhaps it was just woman approaching the settingmenopause can be likened to a Rottweiler in lipstick, for Phinn was an Ambassador nearing retirement resembles a school inspector in pampered peacock about to be released into the Dales for many years, but I think he also has that knack company of capturing a situationcarrion crows or, and a charactermore to the point, and bringing out about to discover the humour without making the person appear ridiculous. Here he collates stories from his other books, some Christmassy and others not, real world of bus timetables and he relates them with several of paying his own poems interspersed betweengas bills.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141036435</amazonuk>}}''
You don't get many better opening sentences than that, do you? We first met His Excellency and The Ambassador's Wife in [[CategorySorting the Priorities:HistoryAmbassadress and Beagle Survive Diplomacy by Sandra Aragona|Sorting the Priorities]]{{newreview|author=Simon Garfield|title=Just My Type: A Book About Fonts|rating=4.5|genre=Humour|summary=A quality typeface is a bit and we learned what it was like a good referee at a football match in that you only really notice them if something has gone wrong. A referee is there to facilitate be moved around countries like accompanying baggage by the players on Italian Government but the pitch, not time has come for HE to retires and for Sandra Aragona to be the star become The Wife of the show (though watching Match of the Day these past few weeks you'd often beg to differ)Former Ambassador.. So it is with typefaces. A good type helps the reader, enhances the flow They have left The Career and makes settled in Rome. Well 'settled' rather overstates the viewing experience easy situation and simple. Well sort their dog, Beagle, has no intention ofslowing down any time soon, despite being sixteen and deaf.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846683017</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Bob Servant and Neil ForsythB08GFSK2WZ|title=Bob Servant: Hero of Dundee|rating=3.5|genre=Humour|summary=After [[Delete This at Your Peril: One Man's Fearless Exchanges with the Internet Spammers by Bob Servant|bursting into public consciousness]] as the scourge of email spammers, Broughty Ferry'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 of his window cleaning empire, and his role in Dundee's brutal cheeseburger wars. Along the way, we witness his struggles with, respectively, women ('skirt'), his simpleton sidekick Frank, and the demon drink.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841589209</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewThe Karma Trap|author=P K Munroe|title=You Can Stick It|rating=3.5|genre=Humour|summary=Literary merit? Absolutely none! Plot, characterisation and all that other stuff you usually talk about? Nope – there's none of that, either. Ah, so it's non-fiction? Well, calling it ''fact'' would be stretching things a little too far... So, come on then. What ''is'' it?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007362188</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Axel Scheffler|title=How to Keep a Pet SquirrelLisette Boyd
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|genre=HumourWomen's Fiction|summary=SoGeorge Jackson is thirty-three years old, how do you keep a pet squirrel? Well, the simple answer is that you don'tabsolutely gorgeous to look at - and single. TheyShe're wild animals and s not at all suitable had sex for keeping eight months and she's stuck in captivity, but accepted thinking didn't always run that waythe karma trap: an awful lot of bad luck is being visited on her and she has a real talent for attracting drama. It was whilst he was dipping into ''The ChildrenHer life's Encyclopaedia'' chaotic: she dealt with the leak from the shower by putting something down at the bottom of 1910 that Axel Scheffler came across a small but indispensible guide the stairs to obtaining absorb the water - then the shower fell through the roof whilst she was in it and caring for your pet squirrelleft her, stark naked, staring at the pervy postman. His inventive mind came up with these beautiful illustrations She only has to accompany the text and if youtake her mother're looking s dog out for an amusing gift a walk for an animalher to end up with dog poo spattered across her face -loving adult then this book could well be and a photo being taken by someone who shares it around the answeroffice.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571255981</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=PJ VanstonDavid C Mason|title=CrumpPandora's Gardener
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|genre=General FictionCrime|summary=It's Kevin Crump's first day as John Cranston is a lecturer at Thames Metropolitan University - an ex-polytechnic. It's the happiest day of his lifegardener, and although what he can't wait to see all that it holds, and make did before he became a difference to all his students. And then it hits him: the relentless pettiness of authority figuresgardener, the students who can't string two sentences togetherhe claims, the lowering of standards in search of higher test scores, so more money from foreign students, and political correctness gone (is classified. That is just as I believe the saying goes) mad.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848762852</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=John Lennon|title=In His Own Write and A Spaniard well because he is about to be caught up 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 tourcriminal / spy / terrorist plot, if where 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 1965he can save the day.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099530422</amazonuk>0956180523
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=John LindsayJester_Forever|title=Emails From An AssholeForever After: a dark comedy|author=David Jester
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|genre=HumourHorror|summary=Some classified ads are crying out for trollingMichael Holland is a cocky and brash young man who dies and gets made the offer of his lifetime; immortality. John Lindsay replies to themWe follow Michael, spins them a yarngrim reaper and his friends, Chip (a stoner tooth fairy) and strings them along for Naff (a stoner in the records department) as they grapple with their long as possible. Sometimes the advert is fairly innocuous lives and he emails them anyway. These are emails from an asshole, after allfinding a clean surface to sit on in their flat.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1402778279</amazonuk>
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|summary=The idea behind this series of novels is quite enchanting and amusing. Frankenstein's daughter is living and sleuthing A long time ago, in Whitby, ably aided and abetted by her sidekicka galaxy far away, all the enigmatic EffieStar Wars films were crunched up against Shakespeare, and the marriage seemed a growing menagerie of younger accomplices, namely Michael and Pennyperfectly suitable one. Whilst So much so – so easily did the original idea showed huge promiseplots and characters converse in Shakespearean dialogue, I felt and behave with Shakespearean stage directions – that the author has rather overdone it in terms of outputproducers tried again, in his desire with [[William Shakespeare's Get Thee Back to the Future! by Ian Doescher|Back to capitalise on his the Future]] no less. And that worked. But simultaneously they put a real test out. A film I can't even really remember seeing was transcribed into the original successElizabethan lingo. Book two in A cult following I had never followed whatsoever was given the series was quite disappointingbrand new, yet oh so ancient, relying on sensationalism rather than adequate plot and character developmentdressing. Book three Here was an improvement-and the true challenge – would I'm delighted manage to report that enjoy this, the fourth book in the series, shows him returning to form with the promise we saw in the first of the series.|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 the lights at Halloween? The lights witch. What does an Australian witch ride based onlittle foreknowledge? A broomerang. Yep, it's a joke book.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0192729063</amazonuk>Oh damn those shiny gold stars for letting the game away…
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Nick Wadley168369094X|title=Man + DogWilliam Shakespeare's Get Thee Back to the Future!|author=Ian Doescher
|rating=4.5
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|summary=Throughout my life I've lived with dogs or deeply regretted A long time ago, in a publishing house far away, [[:Category:Ian Doescher|someone]] thought it wonderfully wacky to rewrite the fact that I lacked story of Star Wars in Shakespearean pentameter, colliding two entirely different genres and styles in such a canine companionclever way they seemed perfectly suited. Watching a dog – or better stillIt was then duly repeated for all the other films in the main Star Wars cycle, the interaction between dogs – is infinitely better than anything on television and itclearly someone's sheer joy buffing their quills ready for Episode Nine, the title of which became public knowledge the day before I write. In the hiatus, however, the effort has been made to see how man and dog interacts if the same shtick works with other texts, and how, so often, they hold a mirror up to each riff on otherseemingly unlikely source materials in iambs.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1564785521< And could we have anything more suitably unsuitable-seeming than Back to the Future, with its tales of time travel, bullying, and parent/amazonuk>child strife like no other?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=The Harvard Lampoon1473669065|title=Nightlight: A Parody of Twilight Queenie Malone's Paradise Hotel|author=Ruth Hogan|rating=3.5
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|summary=Most Tilda returns to Brighton, to tidy away the remains of her mother's life after her death. Whilst there, she returns to the Paradise hotel, a haven for eccentrics and misfits. A place where people will have heard can be themselves, and let go of the worldwide phenomenon thoughts that is [[Twilight by Stephenie Meyer|Twilight]]torment them elsewhere. The books by Stephenie Meyer and the film have made Little wonder that Tilda cannot forgive her mother for banishing her as a legend child, from this place of wonder. With the romance between vampire Edward Mullen (Robert Pattinson plays help of Queenie Malone, caring, and gregarious, Tilda begins to pick apart the movie role) tricky and uncertain relationship she had with her sometimes cruel and teenage schoolgirl Bella Swan (Kristen Stewart)distant mother.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849013330</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Steven Lowe and Alan McArthur 1683690346|title=Is it Just Me or Has the Shit Hit the Fan?: Your Hilarious New Guide to Unremitting Global MiseryThe Con Artist|author=Fred Van Lente|rating=34
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|summary=''The banks fell over like fat Labradors running over Comic-Cons are a wet kitchen floor.place of wonder and sanctuary for many people, and when Comic book artist Mike Mason arrives at San Diego Comic-Con, he'' Surely s looking for both that is and sanctuary with other fans and creators, plus the wackiestchance of maybe, most inappropriate simile for the credit crunch and all it has done for the worldjust maybe reuniting with his ex. You won't get any such namby-pamby animal likenesses from these authorsHowever, instead with quite a potty mouth on them they will lambast the modern worldwhen his rival is found dead, Mike is forced to navigate every dark corner of the entire banking system, all those who failed con in order to see it coming, clear his name – from cosplay flash mobs and those millions just seemingly waiting for us all intrusive fans to revert to high-interest, high-risk, high-lending capitalismzombie obstacle courses – Mike must prove his innocence and, in doing so they can get back on the expenses train, and back up the rich listsmay just unravel a dark secret behind a legendary industry creator.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847443656</amazonuk>
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|summary=Ah, the benefits to a good book of a classic first line. Lex Coulton'Call me Ishmael.' 'It was s debut novel is a bright cold day in Aprilstory about mistakes, failures, and the clocks were striking thirteenrelationships.' Who can forget Iain Banks' 'It was the day my grandmother exploded'? Or those timeless words by Jane AustenThe main protagonist, Frances Pilgrim, 'It is a truth universally acknowledged that sixth form English teacher who has recently fallen out with her best friend Jackson, a zombie in possession work colleague and is grappling with the increasingly eccentric behaviour of brains must be in want of more brainsher mother. This relationship is complicated by the fact that Frances'|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1594743347</amazonuk>s father disappeared at sea when she was five years old.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Harry Hill1683690133|title=Tim The Tiny Horse At LargeMy Lady's Choosing|author=Kitty Curran and Larissa Zageris
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|summary=It's been You are a while since Tim and Fly's [[Tim the Tiny Horse by Harry Hill|last adventures]]lass of twenty-eight. Plucky, penniless and changes are afoot in Tim's tiny world: Fly Regency-era London the race is getting married on to his girlfriendfind a suitable suitor - or else doom yourself to life as an eternal spinster. TimAlong your journey, you's ll be accompanied by Lady Evangeline Youngblood - a fiesty noble eager to save you from a life alone, and fired by a little worried because they've only known each other rogueish sense for a weekadventure. The marriage goes aheadWhen it comes to suitors though, you'll have to make the ultimate decision between witty, pretty and wealthy Sir Benedict Granville, wholesome, rugged and Tim finds himself kicking his heelscaring Captain Angus MacTaggart, so he gets a petor the mad, bad and terrifyingly sexy Lord Garraway Craven. And so With orphans, werewolves, long lost lovers and ancient Egyptian artefacts along the brief episodes in the life of a horse who lives in a matchbox continueway, it's clear this isn't going to be an easy decision...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571244157</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Spike MilliganStibbe_Xmas|title=The Magical World of MilliganAn Almost Perfect Christmas|author=Nina Stibbe
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|summary=Christmas – the time of traditional trauma. You know only have to think about the turkey for that old adage about books – once upon a time it was leaving it sat on the downstairs loo to defrost overnight, and covers? Well this is a case in pointif that failed the hair-dryer shoved inside it treatment was your next best bet. The title isnNowadays it't great, s all having to make sure it's suitably free-range and organic – but the cover design for the paperback imprint isnot too organic that you can go and visit it, likeand get too friendly with it to want to eat it. Christmas, duh!though, the pits. It is so uncool…so unrep-resent-ative of the book. This is not course also a cocktail thingtime of great boons. Not even It's cash in hand for a "Bloody Mary" thing. Welllot of plump people who can hire red suits and beards, except it was always a godsend for postmen with all the tiny bit thank-you letters to aunties you saw twice a decade that is, but your parents made you'll discover that write out in due course.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841498092</amazonuk>long-hand as a child, and as for the makers of Meltis Newberry Fruits – well, did they even try and sell them any other time of the year?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Hugh Murr and Sid Nigtures Doescher_Will|title=Cyber Sign OffsWilliam Shakespeare's the Force Doth Awaken: Star Wars Part the Seventh|author=Ian Doescher|rating=24.5
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|summary=I admit I had the wrong end of the stick when it came to this bookA long time ago, in a galaxy far away, there was a man called William Shakespeare, before I opened it at least. I had assumed it who was able to create a collection series of dramatic histories full of real-life on-line signatures - we've all seen themmachinations most foul, those straplines people have on all their forum postsrulers most evil and rebellious heroes and heroines most sturdy. The obvious response would You may or may not have been along noticed the lines cinematic version of his original stage play for ''The Force Doth Awaken''fair enough, but why is this a book here at last we get the actual script, complete with annoying-in this day and age, and not a website?'. But no. This is a collection of dialogues between two people - shall we call them Sue deNim and Allie Bye, who have a line or two to say to each other, and a madedifferent-up name (sorry, make that May Duppways-Name) with which to sign it off. Much jolly nonsense ensues.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1904312497</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Tim Fitzhigham |title=All at Sea: One Man. One Bathtub. One Very Bad Idea: Conquering the Channel in a Piece of Plumbing|rating=4.5|genre=Travel|summary=Once more my life is made easy by saying this book does just what it claims on the cover - takes a narrator of zestybefore droids anew, wacky humourreturning heroes from elsewhere in his oeuvre, throws him into an unlikely situation (a bath) and gets him to do something unusual (row people keeping it across in the Channel - and then beyond)family til it hurts. This despite And if you need further encouragement, don't forget his audience only demanded three parts of Henry VI – here the fact he was the worldseries is so popular we's worst sculler at University.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848090269</amazonuk>re on to part seven – surely making this over twice as good…
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