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[[Category:New Reviews|Humour]]==Humour==__NOTOC__{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sir Compton MackenzieDean Koontz|title=Whisky GaloreThe 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
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=1529153050
|title=Britain's Best Political Cartoons 2022
|author=Tim Benson
|rating=4
|genre=Humour
|summary=The inhabitants of Great Todday and neighbouring Little Todday enjoy embrocation provided by a tot or two of whisky. Unfortunately this Seeking some light relief from the current political turmoil which is war time. To date the sacrifices in the Hebrides have included their young men coming to seem more and a token black-out (the harbour lights remain on so there seems little point) but more follows. The water like an adrenaline sport, I was nudged towards ''Britain's Best Political Cartoons of life itself is becoming scarcer and they2022''re approaching Lent. The timing is unfortunate as they donSharp eyes will have noted that we't exactly give it up for Lent, but drink extra as Shrove Tuesday approaches in re not yet through the spirit of year: the seasoncartoons run from 4 September 2021 to 31 August 2022. So, as supplies dwindle to extinction, Who can imagine their surprise when a ship containing practically a million bottles of it en route what there will be to America founders off the coast. The community launch a covert army-like operation to liberate come in the alcohol fighting, planning to outwit not the Germans but the islands' Home Guard, HM Customs and Excise and an inept British Intelligence officer. Easy then2023 edition? Well, an easier task than that which local headmaster George Campbell has. He wants to get married but his mum won't let him.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780270925</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Kevin Smith1785633074|title=Jammy DodgerStaggering Hubris|author=Josh Berry|rating=4.5
|genre=Humour
|summary=ItMembers of Parliament like us to believe that the country is run by politicians, headed by the Prime minister - the ''primus inter pares'' (that's 1980s Belfast for those of you who are Eton and Artie McCann has it sortedOxbridge educated) but the reality is that the ''prime'' movers are the special advisers - the SPADS - who are the driving force behind the government. Having left uni with a literature degree, a love We are in the privileged position of having access to the memoirs of poetry and no real urge for hard workRafe Hubris, he and his mate Oliver discover the joy man who was behind the skilful control of Art Council grants. All they need to do is establish a literary magazine and bring out an issue (very) occasionally. This frees them up for reliving the best bits of their former student lifestyle and discussing Covid crisis which was completely contained by the comparable merits end of biscuit varieties2020. However things start to go awry; You might not all know the magazine's would-name now but he will certainly be contributors are happy (or unarmed) and life begins the man to appear more unsettled. There is a way out but it will take some hard work, an actor and a remedy for that smell of rotting milkwatch.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908737085</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mike Henley0571365884|title=One Dog and His ManMy Mess is a Bit of Life: Adventures in Anxiety|author=Georgia Pritchett
|rating=4
|genre=PetsAutobiography|summary=Oberon is a Labrador with Georgia Pritchett has always been anxious, even as a pedigree as long as your arm and ''One Dog and His Man'' is his story about what it's like living with the man he generously refers to as ''The Boss'', about life in general and the ways of the worldchild. Think of him as She would worry about whether the canine equivalent of monsters under the parliamentary sketch writer, there to highlight bed were comfortable: it was the idiosyncrasies sort of human life where if she had nothing to worry about she would become anxious but such occasions were few and bring a gentle humour to situations which might otherwise be taken far too seriouslybetween. Before you wonder how this is possible - how On a dog can write visit to a book - let me remind you that dogs are very intelligent animals. therapist, as an adult, After all, dogs and their humans might go when she was completely unable to speak about what are laughingly called was wrong with her it was suggested that she should write it down and 'dog training classes', but itMy Mess is a Bit of a Life: Adventures in Anxiety''s is the humans who result - or so we are trained, not the dogsgiven to believe.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471660354</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Rosy SherryJohn Boyne|title=BoobadoodleThe Echo Chamber
|rating=5
|genre=HumourGeneral Fiction|summary=Boobadoodle Meet George Cleverley. He is self-defined as "one of the few television personalities over the age of fifty without a criminal record". He 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 Ukrainian 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, keyboard warrior "wokester" who wants to save the world's homeless with out-of doodles. On boobs-date food, and a fit young lad doing the gay hustle thing. Fifty doodles on Add in a variety of boobsfew other characters – therapists, lawyers, some belonging random transgender types – that all have two very different connections to the authorhis life, some and you have something that suggests an almost farcical approach to her friendsthe modern world. Quite good friendsWhat suggests the farcical approach even more, I imaginehowever, is the fact this is bloody funny.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1846059267</amazonuk>0857526219
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{{newreviewFrontpage
|author=Stephen Clarke
|title=The Merde FactorSpy Who Inspired Me
|rating=4
|genre=HumourGeneral Fiction|summary=MeetThis is a spoof spy story, if you haventhat isn't already, Paul Westabout James Bond. Or Ian Fleming. Before now weBut it features a man called Ian Lemming, who dresses well and 'likes the ladies've had four chances to meet him and see his struggles with all things French – their cuisine, their languagewho works for the secret service, their social life and their bureaucracy – in order to run an English-styled tea-room but in the trendier planning side of Paristhings more than the active service. Four books thenLemming finds himself put on a mission with a female spy called Margaux, and we might have expected him the pair end up stranded in Normandy, with Margaux on a desperate mission to have settled down into some form of success – were it not for unearth traitors in the fact resistance network, and Lemming desperately trying to keep up with her!|isbn=2952163855}}{{Frontpage|author=Afonso Cruz and Rahul Bery (translator)|title=Kokoschka's Doll|rating=2.5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=Well, this looked very much like a book I could love from the get-go, which is a comedy serieswhy I picked my review copy up and flipped pages over several times before actually reading any of it. But no, he seems I found things to still be potentially delight me each time – a weird section in France the middle on borrowed timedarker stock paper, a chapter whose number was in the 20,000s, letters used as narrative form, and so on borrowed (or sub-let) land. It intrigued with the subterranean voice a man hears in wartorn Dresden that what little I knew of it mentioned, too. But you've seen the star rating that comes with this review, and things are certainly can tell that if love was on these pages, it was not turning out tres belle for himactually caused by them. So what happened?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1780890338</amazonuk>1529402697
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Drummond Moir (compiler)B08KKQ85FN|title=Just My Typo: From 'sinning with the choir' to 'the large hardon collider'But Never For Lunch|author=Sandra Aragona
|rating=4
|genre=HumourShort Stories|summary=Warning: this book ''If a woman approaching the menopause can seriously damage your reputation. Laughing be likened to a Rottweiler in pubic will lipstick, an Ambassador nearing retirement resembles a pampered peacock about to be released into the least company of your worries. You will reach the stage where teas run down your face and you snort in politically incorrect fashion at the disfigured man who has always had a car on his facecarrion crows or, or the one who could not find the cash to buy a house and had more to burrow. You'll snigger at the charmless who become harmless but it will be up point, about to you as to whether or not you agree that love is just a passing fanny. Personally I felt very sorry for discover the man who studied real world of bus timetables and became an unclear physicistpaying his own gas bills.''
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 Beagle Survive Diplomacy by Sandra Aragona|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444759973</amazonuk>Sorting the Priorities]] and 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 for Sandra Aragona to become The Wife of Former Ambassador... They have left The Career and settled in Rome. Well 'settled' rather overstates the situation and their dog, Beagle, has no intention of slowing down any time soon, despite being sixteen and deaf.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Alan Tyers and BeachB08GFSK2WZ|title=I Kick Therefore I am: The Little Book of Premier League WisdomKarma Trap|author=Lisette Boyd
|rating=4
|genre=SportWomen's Fiction|summary=You remember Ronnie MatthewsGeorge Jackson is thirty-three years old, donabsolutely gorgeous to look at - and single. She't you? Hes not had sex for eight months and she's stuck in the footballer who celebrated his one – karma trap: an awful lot of bad luck is being visited on her and so far, only – international match by booing his way through the Faroe Islands' national anthem, then getting she has a red card real talent for chatting up the lineswomanattracting drama. He still thinks he contributed well to a vital friendly, however. HeHer life's chaotic: she dealt with the player whose career in piddling his way through continuously lesser and lesser clubs for far too long has only been matched in leak from the recent game shower by Steve Claridge. And still he's bucking putting something down at the trend – he's bottom of the only author smart enough stairs to realise that fourabsorb the water -hundred pagethen the shower fell through the roof whilst she was in it and left her, ghost-written biogs are unnecessarystark naked, for hestaring at the pervy postman. She only has to take her mother's crammed all his life, career, philosophy dog out for a walk for her to end up with dog poo spattered across her face - and response to Twitter into an hour's reada photo being taken by someone who shares it around the office.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408832763</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Barry FantoniDavid C Mason|title=Harry Lipkin, Private Eye: The Oldest Detective in the WorldPandora's Gardener|rating=53
|genre=Crime
|summary=Harry Lipkin may not be the fittest private investigator in Florida once you take into account his indigestion and his arthritisJohn Cranston is a gardener, but at 87 although what he's definitely the oldest. Despite this did before he still manages to make became a steady living, picking up the little jobs that don't interest the police and Norma Weinberger's problem comes into that category. Small but expensive knick-knacks seem to be going missing from around the house so could it be a light-fingered member of staff? The suspects (the gardener, the butlerhe claims, the maid and the chauffer) each have their own story and motive, leaving Harry to get the four down to a short list of oneis classified. A task that's perhaps a little harder than it sounds.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846972272</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Alan Clark|title=Rory's Boys|rating=5|genre=Humour|summary=Rory Blaine, grandson of Lady Sybil Blaine That is gay, free, single and loving it, just as well because he tells himself a dozen times a day. He may be middle aged but he's still got it. He's a partner in a successful advertising firm and so, so over having been thrown out of home when he was a teenager; yes, over it – totally and completely. When he hears his grandmother is dying, he decides it's time about to remind her (and her considerable wealth) of his existence. The tardy but intensive attention seems to pay off when he's left the ancestral pile. But the stately home wasn't left to him quite be caught up in the way that he thought. There are so many strings attached it resembles a marionette: if he wants to keep it he must transform it into the first retirement home for elderly gay gentlemen and he also seems to have acquired his first resident, whether he's wanted or not.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1906413886<criminal / spy /amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Serge Bloch|title=You are What You Eat: And Other Mealtime Hazards|rating=3.5|genre=Humour|summary=We last saw Serge Bloch's talents in [[Reach for the Stars and Other Advice for Life's Journey by Serge Bloch|Reach for the Stars and Other Advice for Life's Journey]] when we saw lots of whimsical advice for the Boy and his dogterrorist plot, Roger. This time he wants us to look at what we eat. Boy's mother has told him that he is what he eats - so he's very careful about what he puts on his plate, because you might end up with a pea-pod mouth and a tomato tummy. Roger looks to have fared rather better - with a bone for a body. He at least seems to have a smile on his face!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1402797605</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Philip Reeve|title=Goblins|rating=5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Poor Skarper. He's such a loser. In the violent and bloodthirsty goblin world where fighting and eating and taking other people's loot are all-time-favourite, number-one activities, only he has a terrible handicap. He thinks. In fact, he's pretty clever, for a goblin, to can save the extent that he uses the goblins' bumwipe heaps for . . . reading. Yup, you heard me. Reading. The foolish hatchling works out that the black squiggles on the mouldering heaps of soft and crinkly stuff left, long ago, by the ancient inhabitants of the tower, are written words, and instead of going out raiding like any sensible goblin, he creeps off to a quiet corner to work out what they meanday. Silly, eh?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1407115278</amazonuk>0956180523
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Etgar KeretJester_Forever|title=Suddenly, Forever After: a Knock on the Door dark comedy|author=David Jester
|rating=4
|genre=Short StoriesHorror|summary=In the opening, titular story, Keret Michael Holland is forced by several people to create, a cocky and brash young man who dies and alter, a short short story. It's a plain metaphor for gets made the history offer of Israel, but it proves that this modern Scheherazade is not too far removed geographically from the originalhis lifetime; immortality. And what follows are probably the sort of shortWe follow Michael, tantalisinga grim reaper and his friends, open-ended, rough-round-Chip (a stoner tooth fairy) and Naff (a stoner in the-edges records department) as they grapple with their long lives and surreal results of being compelled finding a clean surface to carry on telling tall tales sit on a nightly basisin their flat.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0701186674</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Nicky Harlow1683691172|title=Amelia and the VirginWilliam Shakespeare's Much Ado About Mean Girls|author=Ian Doescher|rating=2.5
|genre=Humour
|summary=Amelia is 13 years old and lives with her motherA long time ago, brother and extended family in 1980s Liverpool. Cona galaxy far away, her great-uncleall the Star Wars films were crunched up against Shakespeare, is and the marriage seemed a psychiatrist with prestigious patients perfectly suitable one. So much so – so easily did the plots and a bit of a drink problemcharacters converse in Shakespearean dialogue, Great-Aunt Edith is a devout Catholic and behave with an inclination towards eccentricity and her brotherShakespearean stage directions – that the producers tried again, Julian, is a junky. Ameliawith [[William Shakespeare's mother tries Get Thee Back to hold everyone together but becomes slightly distracted when she inherits the Future! by Ian Doescher|Back to the Future]] no less. And that worked. But simultaneously they put a convent in Irelandreal test out. A film I can't even really remember seeing was transcribed into the original Elizabethan lingo. A cult following I had never followed whatsoever was given the brand new, complete with nuns. Amelia has her own problemsyet oh so ancient, thoughdressing. She sees visions of Here was the Goddess Irena and is pregnant with the next Messiah. (A girl true challenge – would I manage to enjoy this time as , based on little foreknowledge? Oh damn those shiny gold stars for letting the original male Messiah didn't have much luck.)|amazonuk=<amazonuk>095600539X</amazonuk>game away…
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sue Townsend168369094X|title=The Growing Pains of Adrian MoleWilliam Shakespeare's Get Thee Back to the Future!|author=Ian Doescher
|rating=4.5
|genre=Humour
|summary=God has come back from A long time ago, in a holiday and has some catching up publishing house far away, [[:Category:Ian Doescher|someone]] thought it wonderfully wacky to do. What’s been happening on Earth for rewrite the last couple story of hundred years? The realisation hits him hard... it makes him sick Star Wars in Shakespearean pentameter, colliding two entirely different genres and styles in factsuch a clever way they seemed perfectly suited. So what’s It was then duly repeated for all the answer? To quote other films in the religious clichémain Star Wars cycle, and clearly someone's buffing their quills ready for Episode Nine, Jesus isthe title of which became public knowledge the day before I write. After a board meeting with In the senior saintshiatus, however, God decides that his son must be torn away from jamming with Hendrix to go back the effort has been made to see if the streets of the world same shtick works with other texts, and to remind the sinners of the way.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099535521</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Sue Townsend|title=The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13¾|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=Adrian Mole was just three months away from his fourteenth birthday when he began writing his diary riff on New Year's Day. He's just on the edge of true adolescence - pimples are appearing as is a little bit of interest other seemingly unlikely source materials in the opposite sexiambs. He's thinking about what he might like And could we have anything more suitably unsuitable-seeming than Back to do ''eventually''the Future, but his first major challenge is the breakdown of his parents' marriage. He writes with a wonderful mixture its tales of ''knowingness'' time travel, bullying, and innocence and usually manages to get things just ever-so-slightly wrong.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141046422<parent/amazonuk>child strife like no other?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Bruce Robinson1473669065|title=The Rum Diary - A ScreenplayQueenie Malone's Paradise Hotel|author=Ruth Hogan
|rating=5
|genre=General FictionHumour|summary=Kemp has lied his way onto a failing newspaper in San Juan, Puerto RicaTilda returns to Brighton, as to tidy away the only candidate for the jobremains of her mother's life after her death. Whilst there, and in a semi-comatose state induced by too many miniatures from she returns to the Paradise hotel minibar, stumbles into a conspiracy of epic proportionshaven for eccentrics and misfits. A place where people can be themselves, via classic bar room brawls and nightclub mayhemlet go of thoughts that torment them elsewhere. On the way he (almost) writes horoscopes and bowling championship storiesLittle wonder that Tilda cannot forgive her mother for banishing her as a child, meets from this place of wonder. With the fantastically erotic girlfriend help of the evil businessmanQueenie Malone, and teams up with a proto-Nazi out of his mind on a cocktail of hootch and LSDcaring, and a photographer side kick. There is no question that this is Hunter S Thompson territorygregarious, especially when all Tilda begins to pick apart the above is combined tricky and uncertain relationship she had with a witty, slow-talking hero who in spite of his alcoholic haze sees clearly through the exploitation of a third world country by its massive first world near neighbourher sometimes cruel and distant mother. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099555697</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Francesca Simon1683690346|title=Horrid Henry's A - Z of Everything HorridThe Con Artist|author=Fred Van Lente
|rating=4
|genre=Humour
|summary=I'm not Comic-Cons are a Spectator reader – indeed other than seeing on the shelves Iplace of wonder and sanctuary for many people, and when Comic book artist Mike Mason arrives at San Diego Comic-Con, he'm ashamed to say s looking for both that before starting to write this article I knew absolutely nothing about and sanctuary with other fans and creators, plus the magazinechance of maybe, its stylejust maybe reuniting with his ex. However, when his rival is found dead, ethos or readership. Having (obviously) done the obligatory websearch I know understand that being its editor Mike is considered a reasonable a route forced to success navigate every dark corner of the con in the Conservative Party or other public office on a right-wing ticket. A sister publication order to clear his name – from cosplay flash mobs and intrusive fans to The Daily Telegraphzombie obstacle courses – Mike must prove his innocence and, it is quoted as being Atlanticistin doing so, usually supportive of Israel, and Eurosceptic in outlook. This makes me utterly unsuitable as may just unravel a dark secret behind a candidate to review Clarke's booklegendary industry creator.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1907595511</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Guy Kennaway1473669588|title=Bird BrainFalling Short|author=Lex Coulton|rating=4.5
|genre=Humour
|summary=Lex Coulton'It began for Basil ''Banger'' Peyton-Crumbe the day he died in a pheasant shooting incident'. If you were in any doubt as to the nature of the s debut novel given the cover jacket and the author's disclaimer to the effect that any similarity between the human characters and any real person is entirely coincidentala story about mistakes, but he feels safe from any threats of libel action on behalf of the dead animals whose characters he has mercilessly manipulated for narrative effectfailures, then its opening sentence should put you straightand relationships.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0224093991</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Neil Forsyth|title=Why Me? The Very Important Emails of Bob Servant|rating=3.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=Catchy title and catchy front cover graphics. What's not to like? It takes a lot to make me laugh generallymain protagonist, but as I had an initial flick through this bookFrances Pilgrim, things looked promising. And I was also thinking that it's is a pleasant change to see another location (other than perhaps the predictable Glasgow and Edinburgh) get an airing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780270097</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Harry Thompson|title=Tintin: Herge and His Creation|rating=3.5|genre=Biography|summary=I love Tintin. I love his quiff and his innocence, his plus-fours and his foreign adventuressixth form English teacher who has recently fallen out with her best friend Jackson, I love Snowy the dog and most of all I love Captain Haddock and the flamboyance of his blistering barnacles language. So I was thrilled to see a biography of the character work colleague and Hergé, his creator, and I picked it up is grappling with enthusiasm. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848546726</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Joseph Heller|title=Catch 22|rating=5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=At the heart increasingly eccentric behaviour of the very black comedy that is ''Catch 22'' is Captain Yossarian, a World War II American bombardier, who wants to survive the warher mother. Flying repeated combat missions This relationship is undermining his sanity, and surely a mad man should be grounded? But if he asks to be grounded, he demonstrates an absolutely sane concern for his own safety. If he is sane, he cancomplicated by the fact that Frances't be grounded. This, his doctor tells him, is catch 22s father disappeared at sea when she was five years old.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099529114</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=William Giraldi1683690133|title=Busy MonstersMy Lady's Choosing|author=Kitty Curran and Larissa Zageris
|rating=4
|genre=Humour
|summary=Somewhere along the line the word "vintage" stopped meaning simply the wine crop You are a lass of any given yeartwenty-eight. Plucky, penniless and started in Regency-era London the race is on to mean the wine of find a particularly good yearsuitable suitor - or else doom yourself to life as an eternal spinster. Along your journey, and then you'll be accompanied by Lady Evangeline Youngblood - a fiesty noble eager to mean anything of save you from a past year that was (is) of outstanding quality. Such is the mutability of language. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099529130</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Ludwig Bechsteinlife alone, Axel Sceffler and Julia Donaldson|title=The Gloomster|rating=4fired by a rogueish sense for adventure.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=WeWhen it comes to suitors though, you've all been there. Finding fault with everything around usll have to make the ultimate decision between witty, pretty and perhaps picking on one particular irritant that gets us so rattledwealthy Sir Benedict Granville, wholesome, tetchy rugged and narked all we can do is invoke "Hell caring Captain Angus MacTaggart, or the mad, bad and damnation!" down on all creation - includingterrifyingly sexy Lord Garraway Craven. With orphans, of coursewerewolves, ourselves. After alllong lost lovers and ancient Egyptian artefacts along the way, our lot is so bad it won's clear this isn't make anything much worsegoing to be an easy decision...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571274242</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Stella GibbonsStibbe_Xmas|title=Conference at Cold Comfort FarmAn Almost Perfect Christmas|author=Nina Stibbe
|rating=4.5
|genre=Humour
|summary=There are no Starkadders at Cold Comfort FarmChristmas – the time of traditional trauma. To those of you who've not read Stella Gibbons' magnificient [[Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons|original novel]], this is hardly likely You only have to be think about the turkey for that – once upon a major shock - time it was leaving it sat on the downstairs loo to defrost overnight, and if that failed the Gibbons fans amongst us, though, this is chilling news indeedhair-dryer shoved inside it treatment was your next best bet. And when RobertPosteNowadays it's child Flora returns all having to the farm make sure it's suitably free- now a modernised monstrosity full of members of the International Thinkers' Group range and organic – sixteen years after her original but not too organic that you can go and visitit, the news and get graver and gravertoo friendly with it to want to eat it. Christmas, as the cows Fecklessthough, Graceless, Pointless, and Aimless have passed away is of shame due to the disgrace course also a time of the bull Big Businessgreat boons. With It's cash in hand for a lot of plump people who can hire red suits and beards, it was always a godsend for postmen with all the menfolk trying thank-you letters to make their fortunes abroadaunties you saw twice a decade that your parents made you write out in long-hand as a child, and as for the women strugglingmakers of Meltis Newberry Fruits – well, it's left to Flora to did they even try to save and sell them any other time of the day once again.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099528681</amazonuk>year?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Stella GibbonsDoescher_Will|title=Cold Comfort Farm|rating=5|genre=Humour|summary=Orphaned at 19, Flora Poste – a London sophisticate – is led to retreat to deepest Sussex to live off her relatives the Starkadders at the aptly named Cold Comfort Farm, a mournful bunch who take her in as they couldn't refuse anything of 'Robert PosteWilliam Shakespeare's child', 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 Force Doth Awaken: Star Wars Part the hugely memorable – if barely seen – Aunt Ada Doom, the first person in literature to see 'something nasty in the woodshed' – she resolves to take the family in hand and solve their problems.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141441593</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewSeventh|author=Philip Jose Farmer|title=The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: The Peerless PeerIan Doescher
|rating=4.5
|genre=Humour
|summary=Everyone who's worked as A long time ago, in a freelancer has galaxy far away, there was a story of a client from hell - that person man called William Shakespeare, who asked for something that was impossible, wanted it done yesterday for able to create a fraction series of dramatic histories full of the usual pricemachinations most foul, rulers most evil and rebellious heroes and heroines most sturdy. You may or is just plain angry about may not have noticed the work produced. cinematic version of his original stage play for ''The website [http://www.clientsfromhell.net ClientsFromHell.net] has collated a number of such stories over Force Doth Awaken'', but here at last we get the yearsactual script, and has now published them as a book.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0982473931</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Manu Joseph|title=Serious Men|rating=4|genre=General Fiction|summary=Ayyan Mani is a Dalitcomplete with annoying-in-different-ways-to-before droids anew, an untouchable, stuck returning heroes from elsewhere in a flat in Mumbai's slums but hoping, somehowhis oeuvre, for a better future for his son. Working at the Insitute of Theory and Research he uses all his cunning and wiles to stay ahead of people keeping it in the game amongst the Brahmin scientistsfamily til it hurts. Does he have the intelligenceAnd if you need further encouragement, and nerves, to convince everyone that don't forget his son, against all odds, audience only demanded three parts of Henry VI – here the series is a genius?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848543085</amazonuk>so popular we're on to part seven – surely making this over twice as good…
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