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[[Category:New Reviews|Humour]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreview|title=Look Who's Back|author=Timur Vermes|rating=5|genre=General Fiction|summary=''Hitler Youth Ronaldo! Which way to the street?'' With these words a very misguided Nazi Fuhrer asks for his first directions in the Berlin of 2011. Mistakenly believing the lad to be a party junior member with his own name on his football shirt, he also thinks for a while it is still 1945. He's soon informed of the truth, but still makes some unfortunate conclusions – that the street kiosks selling Turkish language newspapers are a sign of a Soviet-beating alliance between the two countries, that people eat granola bars because the war still leads to a bread shortage, and that people making an ironic speech bubble with their fingers in the air is all that is left of the Hitler salute. But yes, after a long hiatus neither he nor our author is particularly concerned with explaining, ''that man'' is back – and if he has his way he's going to be just as popular this time round…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857052926</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Adam RuckDean Koontz|title=The Bluffer's Guide to Golf (Bluffer's Guides)Bad Weather Friend

|genre=SportParanormal|summary=The fly leaf suggests that this BlufferBenny 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 Guide possible that whoever or whatever was inside is the thing that has trashed his house! The thing is, Benny is the way very last person to instantly acquire deserve all the knowledge which you need to pass as an expert in the ''arcane and labyrinthine'' world of golfthis bad luck. There's quite He is a bit there nice person. A really nice person. So fortunately for Benny it turns out that I'd agree on - the rules (and delivery to an unfortunate extent the ''attitudes'') are arcane and they seem to take his house is a new friend, a lifetime bad weather friend called Spike, who has been sent to master, but there's help him since Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for being a surprising amount of information tucked away inside this little bookgood person. What I might quibble with Spike is whether or not you would ''pass as an expert'going to take care of Benny, and will certainly take care of Benny' s enemies, if he, Benny, and Harper (which suggests that you're something of a con man): therewaitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny's enough detail here to give you a solid grounding without needing to bluffwild adventure) can figure out who exactly they are.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1909365327</amazonuk>1662500491

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleisbn=The Collected Works of A J Fikry|author=Gabrielle Zevin|rating=4|genre=General Fiction|summary=A J Fikry is not having a good time. He's lost his wife to a car crash, and he's not making that much money. The book store he runs, stuck out on a limb on a quiet island community, is too remote to turn a profit year-round, and he has just dismissed the latest publisher's rep to turn up at his door, partly because her previous counterpart, an inconsequential part of A J's life when all is said and done, had died and he didn't know about it. But his bad time is about to get a lot worse, as the one thing he owns worth the most – a rare book, more valuable than his house, his business, anything – is about to vanish. Which bizarrely will cause several major changes to his one-person household…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408704617</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=William Hanson1529153050|title=The Bluffer's Guide to Etiquette (BlufferBritain's Guides)|rating=5|genre=Lifestyle|summary=If you ask people what they fear most in any social situation most will tell you that it's not knowing how to behave. They'll be fine about the basics, but it's those little niceties - how to introduce yourself, what to ask for as an aperitif, how to address someone, for instance which can suddenly reveal you as a parvenu. William Hanson gives us a quick trip through the essentials in a book which is very readable and - in places - hilariously funny.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1909937002</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Horrid Henry's Biggest and Best Ever Joke Book - 3-in-1|author=Francesca Simon and Tony Ross|rating=4.5|genre=Humour|summary=It is easy to see why Horrid Henry remains such an enduring and well-liked children’s character. The adventures of this cheeky, irreverent schoolboy and a cast of extreme characters including Miss Battle Axe, The Demon Dinner Lady, Rabid Rebecca and arch-nemesis Moody Margaret are incredibly funny and a perfect way to encourage reluctant young readers to cultivate a love of reading. It is no surprise then, that the series has spawned a set of three spin-off joke books, which have now been combined to create a single volume: ''Horrid Henry’s Biggest and Best Ever Joke Book''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>144401174X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Let Me Off at the Top!: My Classy Life and Other MusingsPolitical Cartoons 2022|author=Ron BurgundyTim Benson

|summary=''This book Seeking some light relief from the current political turmoil which is a testament coming to my giant balls.seem more and more like an adrenaline sport, I was nudged towards '' But itBritain's also a lot more. The story we've never been able to discern from either Best Political Cartoons of the 2022''Anchorman'' films is one of surprising hardship, unsurprising hardness, and great hair. ItSharp eyes will have noted that we's a rags-to-riches tale, as Ron Burgundy comes from a Hicksville town in re not yet through the middle of year: the outskirts of somewhere the arse end of nowhere (a town perpetually on fire due cartoons run from 4 September 2021 to 31 August 2022. Who can imagine what there will be to the accidents come in the mines underneath) and struggles against all the odds – and many of the evens in the shape of women's legs – to get where he is today, thrusting himself and his news at us nightly.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780892241</amazonuk>2023 edition?

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleisbn=Outraged of Tunbridge Wells: Original Complaints from Middle England1785633074|authortitle=Nigel Cawthorne|rating=4|genre=Humour|summary=It was ever thus… cyclists go too fast, without using a hooter or lights; there are hoodlums everywhere one looks, and no public conveniences; people pretend to have qualifications and degrees they haven't rightfully earned; buses are too busy with shopping women who should be indoors already, cooking for their working menfolk… It's a very clever idea to show exactly what is behind the 'disgusted of Tunbridge Wells' tag, and as a book to be shelved alongside those with the wackier letters sent to the ''Daily Telegraph'', these selections from the Royal town's press itself make a great eye-opener to the complaints and complainants of Kent.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908096918</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewStaggering Hubris|author=Charlie Hill|title=BooksJosh Berry

|summary=Neurology professor Lauren Furrows witnesses the sudden untimelydeath Members of two tourists in a bar while on holiday. Birmingham bookshop ownerRichard Anger happens Parliament like us to be in believe that the country is run by politicians, headed by the Prime minister - the same bar so together our single holidaymakers decide to team up as an investigatory force to be reckoned with.''primus inter pares'' (Well, Lauren teams up for that. Richard's reasons for those of you who are more physical thanintellectual to begin with.) The murders seem to emanate from author GarySayles, a legend in his own mind Eton and, apparently, fatal to read. Elsewherehippy exhibitionists (in an over-18 wayOxbridge educated) Zeke and Pippa, but the reality is that the ''prime'' movers are planning theart installation to end all art installations and, special advisers - the SPADS - who are determined to makeGary the centrepiece, whether he realises it or notdriving force behind the government.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781251630</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=The Facebook Diet: 50 Funny Signs We are in the privileged position of Facebook Addiction and Ways having access to Unplug With a Digital Detox|author=Gemini Adams|rating=3.5|genre=Humour|summary=Everywhere you look and question this bookthe memoirs of Rafe Hubris, it is a success – more or less. Does it do what it purports to – show evidence the man who was behind the skilful control of a Facebook addiction and provide a dietary way out? Yes, more or less. Does it engage with its combination the Covid crisis which was completely contained by the end of cartoon images and captions? Yes, more or less2020. Does it have some cult Internet pedigree to make it a hit gift book for the techie? Yes, more or less – it You might not have been borne from a webpage somewhere online, know the name now but he will certainly be the Kindle version was launched several months before the paperback. Is it then a worthwhile addition man to your comedy book shelves? Yes – more or lesswatch.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>095546563X</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=0571365884|title=Sad MonstersMy Mess is a Bit of Life: Adventures in Anxiety|author=Frank LesserGeorgia Pritchett

|genre=HumourAutobiography|summary=If you thought you had Georgia Pritchett has always been anxious, even as a child. She would worry about whether the monsters under the bed were comfortable: it bad… Here is was the chupacabra writing sort of life where if she had nothing to the newspapers for better press – notices that don't universally mention his goat-sucking habits before his chess-playing, dancing or debating recordworry about she would become anxious but such occasions were few and far between. Here is On a visit to a banshee struggling with high school lifetherapist, knowing the end of everyone that comes across her path. Here is King Kongas an adult, being defended in court by a lawyer with a revelation when she was completely unable to the jury speak about his bipolarity and how what was wrong with her it was to get his hopes up with suggested that she should write it down and ''My Mess is a Bit of a Broadway show Life: Adventures in a strange cityAnxiety'' is the result - or so we are given to believe. Did you honestly think Godzilla enjoyed the way his life ended up?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0285642324</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Michael CameronJohn Boyne|title=The BrinkmeyersEcho Chamber

|genre=HumourGeneral Fiction|summary=Hymie Brinkmeyer, New Yorker transplanted in Meet George Cleverley. He is self-defined as "one of the few television personalities over the UK is 50 years old ''on age of fifty without a good day''criminal record". He lives with starts this book a bit worried when his mistress tells him she's carrying his child, but then his author wife Maggie and teenage is getting her kicks with the Ukrainian partner "Strictly Come Dancing" paired her with. They have three children Kevin and Karrie. Hymie thinks Kevin is great, while given thatwho are a sad-sack with absolutely no social skills whatsoever, if he gets picked up for drug possession once more, Hymie will have to admit that Kevin may have a problem. Karrie, girl who hangs around with a burgeoning poetvirtue-signalling, is also wonderful in her dadkeyboard warrior "wokester" who wants to save the world's eyes homeless with out-of-date food, and is about to give birth to her second child outside a relationship. It's her body so she has fit young lad doing the rightgay hustle thing... hasn't she? Everything is fine and life is great. OkAdd in a few other characters – therapists, lawyers, Kevin's plotting random transgender types – that all have two very different connections to kill his mother life, and Hymie's leather-clad secretary seems to you have a crush on her boss and Hymie seems something that suggests an almost farcical approach to have a lump somewhere delicately crucial but everything's just finethe modern world. What suggests the farcical approach even more, however, is the fact this is bloody funny.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0957319134</amazonuk>0857526219

 {{newreview|title=Dedicated to...: The Forgotten Friendships, Hidden Stories and Lost Loves found in Second-hand Books|author=W B Gooderham|rating=4.5|genre=EntertainmentFrontpage|summary=I have found many strange and unusual things in second-hand bookshops. I have done one or two strange and unusual things in them as well, but that's a different story. Twice now I have managed to find a second-hand book, completely signed and dedicated by the author, yet discarded by the recipient, and have been able to present the author with the edition at hand and get it re-dedicated. (If I'm not mistaken, the discarders were a neighbouring babysitter, and a teacher of the author's children.) I'll admit that's rarefied, however, and on the whole the scribble you find in second-hand books is from the person who bought it, and gave it as a gift, not the person who wrote it. But even so, the dedication of the donor can be immensely fascinating and open to all kinds of interpretation, as these examples show perfectly clear.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0593072847</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewStephen Clarke|title=Wallace and Gromit - The Complete Newspaper Strips - Volume 1|author=Nick ParkSpy Who Inspired Me

|genre=HumourGeneral Fiction|summary=One man and his dog never had such This is a famous theme tunespoof spy story, that isn't about James Bond. Or Ian Fleming. But it features a man called Ian Lemming, who dresses well and 'likes the ladies'One Man and His Dog'' had a piddly little melodywho works for the secret service, but in the triumphal, old-fashioned and charming parp planning side of things more than the theme tune to Wallace and Gromit has resounded out for decades nowactive service. While Aardman moved away from the near-silent classic animations the series first gave usLemming finds himself put on a mission with a female spy called Margaux, and the plasticine creations mutated into incredibly popular characters, which included a daily strip pair end up stranded in the nation's biggest-selling tabloid. Here is the first lump of them, 312 daily doses of tomfooleryNormandy, collected for everyone to enjoy. Even if you thought the franchise had travelled its course with Margaux on a long time ago…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782760326</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Demon Dentist|author=David Walliams|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=He ought desperate mission to have realised she was evil from the start. After all, how many dentists do you know who love — yes, really love — rotten teeth? Brown, yellow, cracked, full of cavities, diseased, covered unearth traitors in plaque . . . you get the picture. And for Alfieresistance network, a boy who loathes dentists from the bottom of his heart and whose teeth are so rotten they ought Lemming desperately trying to be a tourist attraction, danger definitely looms. You can practically hear the background music when the two meet at a school assembly: dum-dum-DUUUUMMMMMM!!!keep up with her!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0007453566</amazonuk>2952163855

 {{newreview|title=Peas and Queues: The Minefield of Modern MannersFrontpage|author=Sandi Toksvig|rating=5|genre=Politics Afonso Cruz and Society|summary=Dear Sandi  You are my all time favourite celebrity lesbadyke, and one of the reasons I’m so very excited to be heading to Denmark this coming weekend Rahul Bery (are all people there like you? Please say yestranslator). For this alone, I had to get my mitts on your latest offering. I wasn’t that fussed about obtaining a book on manners previously, having always thought mine were quite ok, but I knew your take on the matter would be suitably hilarious and well worth a read. I was not wrong.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781250324</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Deaf at Spiral Park|author=Kieran DevaneyKokoschka's Doll

|genre=HumourLiterary Fiction|summary=''Deaf at Spiral Park'' is Well, this looked very much like a bizarre take on book I could love from the philosophy get-go, which is why I picked my review copy up and flipped pages over several times before actually reading any of what it is . I found things to be humanpotentially delight me each time – a weird section in the middle on darker stock paper, attempted through a chapter whose number was in the portrayal of a bear who shaves of his fur to appear 20,000s, letters used as a humannarrative form, and so on. The story combines philosophy It intrigued with comedy using the subterranean voice a range man hears in wartorn Dresden that what little I knew of stock characters including a clown and a farmer to show it mentioned, too. But you've seen the world of the bear star rating that comes with this review, and to consider how his humanity may be more than can tell that of the humans themselvesif love was on these pages, it was not actually caused by them. So what happened?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1907773169</amazonuk>1529402697

 {{newreview|title=Very British Problems: Making Life Awkward for Ourselves, One Rainy Day at a Time|author=Rob TempleFrontpage|ratingisbn=3|genre=Humour|summary=Are you compelled to apologise multiple times a day – even when you are not at fault, or even to inanimate objects? Would you subject yourself to great inconvenience rather than confront someone who is sitting in your reserved seat on a train? Have you been known to commit desperate acts in the search for your next cup of tea? If so, you may be suffering from Very British Problems.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0751552593</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewB08KKQ85FN|title=The Reluctant CannibalsBut Never For Lunch|author=Ian FlitcroftSandra Aragona

|genre=General FictionShort Stories|summary=Over ''If a woman approaching the menopause can be likened to a truffled turkey at their college Christmas dinner Rottweiler in 1964lipstick, an Ambassador nearing retirement resembles a group pampered peacock about to be released into the company of Oxford dons decide carrion crows or, more to join their love of fine food and drink with their mutual appreciation for nineteenth-century French philosopher of food Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin (author of the 1825 classic ''La Physiologie du Goût''point, or ''The Physiology of Taste'') by forming a secret dining society. Together these fellows of St Jerome's College form about to discover the Shadow Faculty real world of Gastronomic Science, a group that will continue meeting to share new bus timetables and daring culinary experiences until Oxford agrees to set up a proper gastronomic school of its paying his owngas bills.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1909593591</amazonuk>}}''

{{newreview|author=Peter Stjernstrom You don't get many better opening sentences than that, do you? We first met His Excellency and Rod Bradbury (translator)|title=The Best Book Ambassador's Wife in [[Sorting the WorldPriorities: Ambassadress and Beagle Survive Diplomacy by Sandra Aragona|rating=5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=Titus Jensen may not have written many great novels for a while (if ever) Sorting the Priorities]] and we learned what it was like to be moved around countries like accompanying baggage by the Italian Government but his festival readings of others' works are renowned. Why, his rendition of ''The Diseases of the Swedish Monarchs from Gustavas Vasa to Gustav V'' time has been compared favourably come for HE to his offerings from ''Handbook retires and for Volvo 245''Sandra Aragona to become The Wife of Former Ambassador... However, one drunken night he They have left The Career and romantic poet Eddie X agree that their fame on the festival circuit would be insignificant by comparison if they could write the best book settled in the world; a combination of all genres, appealing to all tastes and making all the best seller categoriesRome. They start work on it Well 'settled' rather overstates the next day butsituation and their dog, Beagle, rather than collaboratehas no intention of slowing down any time soon, each wants the lone glorydespite being sixteen and deaf. The race (or should that be battle?) to the publishing date is on!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1843914808</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B08GFSK2WZ|title=The Complete and Utter History of the World According to Samuel Stewart Aged 9Karma Trap|author=Sarah BurtonLisette Boyd

|genre=HumourWomen's Fiction|summary=George Jackson is thirty-three years old, absolutely gorgeous to look at - and single. She's not had sex for eight months and she'Nobody knows where history ends'', according to s stuck in the cover illustration karma trap: an awful lot of this little book, but if anybody knows what it involves it bad luck is nine year old Samuel Stewartbeing visited on her and she has a real talent for attracting drama. He captivatingly summarises it all on these pages, bringing us in ninety minutes Her life's chaotic: she dealt with the leak from the times cavemen didn't write history shower by putting something down as they didn't realise at the bottom of the stairs to absorb the water - then the shower fell through the roof whilst she was in it had started yetand left her, stark naked, staring at the pervy postman. She only has to take her mother's dog out for a walk for her to end up to with dog poo spattered across her face - and a photo being taken by someone who shares it around the time of his birthoffice.}} {{Frontpage|author=David C Mason|title=Pandora's Gardener|rating=3|genre=Crime|summary= John Cranston is a gardener, although what he did before he became a gardener, he claims, is classified. That of course is just as well because he is about to be caught up in a time that passed most of us bycriminal / spy / terrorist plot, but heralded where only he can save the arrival of a very individual, entertaining and amusing voiceday.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1780721838</amazonuk>0956180523

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tony Robinson OBEJester_Forever|title=Freedom from Bosses ForeverAfter: a dark comedy|author=David Jester

|genre=HumourHorror|summary=When we first meet Canadian businesswoman Leonora Soculitherz (don't struggle - it's pronounced 'so cool it hurts') she's on her way from Manchester Airport to Scarborough, Michael Holland is a cocky and brash young man who dies and gets made the home offer of her agenthis lifetime; immortality. We follow Michael, Tony Robinson OBE. You get the measure of the woman straight away as she lets her irritation show about the problems you find in the First Class carriage on the train. a grim reaper and his friends, Chip (She is ''so'' right - I was once grateful to spend the journey perched on a luggage rack.stoner tooth fairy) Her mission is and Naff (a piece of investigative journalism that's going to introduce her to some very superior people as she searches for information about why people stoner in small businesses don't get the help records department) as they needgrapple with their long lives and finding a clean surface to sit on in their flat.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B00CE5BKKI</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Paul Merrill1683691172|title=Muddle Your Way Through Being a Grandparent: How to Fool People into Thinking YouWilliam Shakespeare're a Competent Granny or Grandpas Much Ado About Mean Girls|author=Ian Doescher|rating=32.5

|summary=It seems to be accepted wisdom that being A long time ago, in a grandparent is a great deal easier than being galaxy far away, all the Star Wars films were crunched up against Shakespeare, and the marriage seemed a parentperfectly suitable one. The trials So much so – so easily did the plots and characters converse in Shakespearean dialogue, and tribulations have largely been ignored by wrinklies grateful for contact behave with their children and grandchildren - and by Shakespearean stage directions – that the children who are grateful (or otherwise) for free childcare - or so Paul Merrill would have us believe. Published for Grandparents' Day his book takes us through a series of scientifically-questionable quizzesproducers tried again, flow charts (thatwith [[William Shakespeare's often of money, Get Thee Back to the Future! by Ian Doescher|Back to the way - and you Future]] no less. And that worked. But simultaneously they put a real test out. A film I can guess which way it's flowing)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, checklists and advice from celebritiesyet oh so ancient, some of whom you might even have heard ofdressing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1909609404</amazonuk>Here was the true challenge – would I manage to enjoy this, based on little foreknowledge? Oh damn those shiny gold stars for letting the game away…

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jonathan Coe168369094X|title=Expo 58William Shakespeare's Get Thee Back to the Future!|author=Ian Doescher

|summary=A long time ago, in a publishing house far away, [[:Category:Ian Doescher|someone]] thought it wonderfully wacky to rewrite the story of Star Wars in Shakespearean pentameter, colliding two entirely different genres and styles in such a clever way they seemed perfectly suited. Itwas then duly repeated for all the other films in the main Star Wars cycle, and clearly someone's 1958 and Thomas Foley works buffing their quills ready for Episode Nine, the British Government Central Office title of Information but feels an outsider. He's ex-grammar school rather than establishment which became public school and his mother is Belgian (that's foreign you know) so there are definite impediments to his promotionknowledge the day before I write. Thomas is therefore thrilled when chosen In the hiatus, however, the effort has been made to oversee one of Britain's exhibits at see if the bigsame shtick works with other texts, exciting international Expo and to riff on other seemingly unlikely source materials in Belgiumiambs. So bring on And could we have anything more suitably unsuitable-seeming than Back to the experience… and a little brush Future, with espionage… and some beautiful women. (Sylvia is a little less thrilledits tales of time travel, bullying, being his wife and all.)|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0670923710<parent/amazonuk>child strife like no other?

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Michael Roll1473669065|title=Save Our ShopQueenie Malone's Paradise Hotel|author=Ruth Hogan|rating=3.5

|summary=William Bridge was a talented artist - just a little too talentedTilda returns to Brighton, as it turned out because to tidy away the sub-editor could see remains of her mother''exactly'' who s life after her death. Whilst there, she returns to the cartoon character was meant to be and that was why he ceased to be Paradise hotel, a journalist rather suddenly. He wasn't ''exactly'' spoiled haven for choice when it came to his next employment eccentrics and that was how he found himself helping his Uncle Albert in the village shopmisfits. A place where people can be themselves, but there were pluses and minuses about the job. The biggest plus was let go of thoughts that he met and fell in love with Sally, who was also helping Uncle Alberttorment them elsewhere. The first of the minuses was Little wonder that there was more than Tilda cannot forgive her mother for banishing her as a little opposition to the match child, from Sally's stepmother, the redoubtable Lady Courtneythis place of wonder. And then there was With the armed robberyhelp of Queenie Malone, caring, the arrival of Albert's brother Neil who for urgent and perfectly valid reasons needed gregarious, Tilda begins to be known as Aunt Isabel, pick apart the American security expert tricky and his daughter whose expertise was in an entirely different area uncertain relationship she had with her sometimes cruel and some dodgy dealings about the future of the shop. No real problems there, thendistant mother.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1291387382</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1683690346|title=Straight White MaleThe Con Artist|author=John NivenFred Van Lente

|summary=In Kill Your FriendsComic-Cons are a place of wonder and sanctuary for many people, John Niven delivered a scathing and hugely entertaining satire on the music industry. In Straight White Male when Comic book artist Mike Mason arrives at San Diego Comic-Con, he's turned looking for both that and sanctuary with other fans and creators, plus the chance of maybe, just maybe reuniting with his ex. However, when his attention rival is found dead, Mike is forced to navigate every dark corner of the con in order to Hollywood clear his name – from cosplay flash mobs and academia with similarly impressive resultsintrusive fans to zombie obstacle courses – Mike must prove his innocence and, in doing so, may just unravel a dark secret behind a legendary industry creator.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0434022861</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1473669588|title=Unfaithfully YoursFalling Short|author=Nigel WilliamsLex Coulton

|genre=General FictionHumour|summary=When Nigel Williams first really burst on to the best-seller listLex Coulton's debut novel is a story about mistakes, a couple of decades agofailures, it was with a book set in Wimbledon that really quite tickled a younger me – and my motherrelationships. But then he produced two more in the same seriesThe main protagonist, Frances Pilgrim, and we soon decided he was is a bit of a one-trick pony, and could never be sure how much of the trilogy we'd read, or be too eager to read more. Flash forward, and Williams sixth form English teacher who has certainly branched recently fallen out – his setting this time is Putney. Wimbledon Common is now Putney Heathwith her best friend Jackson, a work colleague and so on. But here he provides an epistolatory novel – and if there's one kind is grappling with the increasingly eccentric behaviour of novel to make me prick up my ears it is one built from lettersher mother. It This relationship is complicated by the blatant two-and-fro timing of the narrative, and the succinctness fact that characters are formed with, that strike me as obvious benefits of such a book – and Unfaithfully Yours has those and many moreFrances's father disappeared at sea when she was five years old.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472106741</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jonathan Evison1683690133|title=The Revised Fundamentals of CaregivingMy Lady's Choosing|author=Kitty Curran and Larissa Zageris|rating=54|genre=General FictionHumour|summary= Ben hasn't worked for You are a while lass of twenty-eight. Plucky, penniless and so, deciding in Regency-era London the race is on to find a career changesuitable suitor - or else doom yourself to life as an eternal spinster. Along your journey, trains you'll be accompanied by Lady Evangeline Youngblood - a fiesty noble eager to become save you from a caregiverlife alone, and fired by a rogueish sense for adventure. His first client is TrevWhen it comes to suitors though, a 20 year old Duchene Muscular Dystrophy sufferer who hasnyou't ll have to make the sunniest of dispositions. In fact Trev is angryultimate decision between witty, self-centred pretty and goes through caregivers like a knife through milk. Howeverwealthy Sir Benedict Granville, wholesome, Benrugged and caring Captain Angus MacTaggart, needing a jobor the mad, holds on tight bad and tries to encourage Trev to live a littleterrifyingly sexy Lord Garraway Craven. Eventually Trev complies With orphans, werewolves, long lost lovers and dictates a ancient Egyptian artefacts along the way forward: a road trip. A road trip with a housebound, ill, angry person is not what Ben had in mind at all. Meanwhile it gradually becomes 's clear to us that Trev this isn't the only one who has going to learn to live a little differentlybe an easy decision...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781851751</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Krister JonesStibbe_Xmas|title=The Satanic DiariesAn Almost Perfect Christmas|author=Nina Stibbe|rating=4.5

|summary=We travel with Satan through a morose Christmas – the time in his lengthy existenceof traditional trauma. His wife has divorced him and his Chief of Security (Himmler) seems You only have to be going even madder. To top think about the turkey for that – once upon a time it was leaving it offsat on the downstairs loo to defrost overnight, his therapist is insisting and if that his anger issues need failed the hair-dryer shoved inside it treatment was your next best bet. Nowadays it's all having to be dealt make sure it's suitably free-range and organic – but not too organic that you can go and visit it, and get too friendly with and it to want to eat it. Christmas, though, is forcing him to keep of course also a diarytime of great boons. Following It's cash in hand for a disastrous holiday lot of plump people who can hire red suits and an even worse attempt to get back into datingbeards, he takes the diary it was always a godsend for postmen with him as he goes on all the lam thank-you letters to aunties you saw twice a decade that your parents made you write out in disguise long-hand as a child, and lives for a while paycheck to paycheck as a security guard for a cash the makers of Meltis Newberry Fruits – well, did they even try and carry.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1909224340</amazonuk>sell them any other time of the year?

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Graeme SimsionDoescher_Will|title=The Rosie ProjectWilliam Shakespeare's the Force Doth Awaken: Star Wars Part the Seventh|author=Ian Doescher|rating=4.5

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