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[[Category:New Reviews|Graphic Novels]] __NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Nick BantockEdel Rodriguez|title=Griffin and Sabine 25th Anniversary EditionWorm: An Extraordinary CorrespondenceA Cuban American Odyssey

|summary=DonWe't we all just want that one little fillup to our looks – that tuck therere in childhood, those pounds or wrinkles vanished, that little tweak to make us more sexually attractive and virile? we're in Cuba. WellThe revolution has happened, if you catch The Beautyand Castro, you will indubitably end upfirst thought of as a saviour of the country, in what colloquial language has itproven himself a Communist, ''fit''. But The Beauty is and not done nearly enough to be caught as in create a passing fad or itinerant beauticianlevel playing field for all. Well, but as a sexual diseasethose hours-long speeches of his were kind of taking his time away. And itOur narrator's hit half family weren't in the population – most happiest of those willingly. You feel feverish with itplaces here, but it's taken an uncle refusing to be the good soldier the country demanded (especially as he would probably be shipped off big timeto some minor pro-Communism skirmish, such as Angola) and Big Pharma is happy with the situationfather being watched and watched, and not liked for his successful photography business, success being frowned upon. Some violent anti-Beauty activists aren't, so special police units exist regarding itThe mother gets the couple jobs with the party to ease some of the heat, but theyin this sultry island country, it remains the Powers That Be, and the underground scientists working against kind of heat forcing you out of the disease are only going to be swamped when The Beauty shows its true face…kitchen…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1632155508</amazonuk>1474616720

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Peter O'Donnell and Enric Badia RomeroKia Ahankoob|title=Modesty Blaise - Ripper JaxThe Gold Lion and the Tournament of Sentinels

|summary=Is there any stopping Modesty Blaise? WellWhen Myriad created Duniva he endowed his children with different powers, each with its own strength and weakeness, inasmuch as there are only ten stories left that have not been anthologised in these lovely reprintsthe hope they would complement each other and collaborate, yes – just three books to go, by my reckoningcreating a dynamic and prosperous society. That reckoning should be quite accurate, if I can be immodest, for there Each power is contained within a lot that is routine about these stories. They all had three panels a day, six days a week (with magical ring belonging to one dayof eight countries led by Myriad's output being less relevant to the story for those papers that children and their descendants. But it didn't carry quite work out like that. Rivalries developed. Enmities grew out of them and the comic on weekends), for twenty-one weekseight countries went to war. But rest assured there is also a lot that is unusual about Modesty Having fought themselves into an endless and ruinous stalemate and her outputfinding the cost of war too high, including a never-ending variety to solution is proposed. Each of the locationseight countries will send their greatest warriors, known as sentinels, to the manner a single combat tournament. The winner will take possession of all the baddy's crime, and to the action Modesty rings and her Willie are forced to undertake to win become the daysupreme ruler of Duniva. And nobody, but nobody, has undertaken so much action and come out looking so attractive…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1783298588</amazonuk>B09MMQJFPV

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jens HarderPat Grant|title=AlphaThe Grot: Directions|rating=5|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=So, people might still ask me, why do I turn to graphic novels – aren't visual books with limited writing more suited to young people? Yeah, right – try pawning this off on juvenile audiences and the semi-literate. If you can't kill that cliché off with pages such as these I don't know what will work. I know The Story of the book isn't designed to be a message to people in the debate about the literary worth of graphic novels, but one side-effect of it is surely an engagement with that argument. What it is designed to be is a complete history of everything else – and in covering every prehistoric moment, it does just that, and absolutely brilliantly.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0861662458</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Marcel Ruijters and Laura Watkinson (translator)|title=HieronymusSwamp City Grifters

|summary=This is Everything in this world runs on pedal-power, and that includes the punk bands. There are three pedallers at the front of the Heath Robinson contraption taking our lead characters to the ferry across the swamp to Falter City, where a book for those who find it amusing that mother and her two sons aim to set up a biography of someone who has been dead 500 years is called 'unauthorised'yoghurt factory. This You could say that yoghurt would be the only culture around, for this is a book where the detail really rough-and-ready dump of a place, but everyone is interested in small things that grow. For the devil only money to be had – people pissing the only fortunes to be found in Falter City – come from algae, gunk and other crud that – well, the street; use of it is never really made clear. Once there, the locals baiting blind people armed two brothers set themselves each up with cudgels in a pit guide – Lippy, the more forward-thinking, industrious of the two, with a pigbesuited gent, often failing to whack the beast and hitting their colleagues by mistake; farting demons visiting the sleeperPenn with a ballsy young teenaged girl with bright red hair. This is a book for those who don't mind a spot But which of ribaldry, an affront to religious piety or suchlike the two will come off the worse as they make their own way in their graphic novels. Whether or not this is a book for those seeking a biography of Hieronymus Bosch remains to be seen.dystopian, semi-Apocalyptic hellhole?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0861662466</amazonuk>1603094660

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jean-Patrick ManchetteLun Zhang, Max Cabanes Adrien Gombeaud, Ameziane and Doug HeadlineEdward Gauvin (translator)|title=FataleTiananmen 1989: Our Shattered Hopes|rating=34.5

|summary=Play. It's a weird verb – I never really followed the events of Tiananmen Square with much attention when it can mean many different things. Aimee intends to play was playing out – she's already put paid to several men playing at being hunterssomeone in the second half of their teens has other priorities, but she has a different game in mindyou know. Arriving at a very insular little town she scopes I certainly didn't know of the weeks of protests and hunger strikes from the big-wigs out, watching them over students before the bridge table massacre and across the golf teesbirth of the Tank Man image, I didn't know how the area had long been a venue for political protest, and, seeing them bicker I didn't know more than a spit about each other at both play and work, she knows she can play with themthe people involved on either side. But what might happen, given these undefined rules, if they chose to play as This book is practically flawless in giving a team against her?general browser's context for the whole season of protests back in 1989.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782766820</amazonuk>1684056993

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Des TaylorLeigh Bardugo, Louise Simonson and Kit Seaton|title=Scarlett CoutureWonder Woman: Warbringer: The Graphic Novel

|genre=Graphic NovelsTeens|summary=WhatDiana, in the real worldbeing unique on her island, would be is the least likely cover for victim of a secret agent but that of super-model? Apart from the advantage lot of everyone thinking you were gormlesstaunts, there is the implausible clothing and having to run around after baddies in high heels to considerclaims of nepotism. But the world of comics isnIt't the real worlds only her unique status, and so you have her mother being Queen, that has her with any standing at all, her naysayers declare – even though she has clearly fought to ask the opposite – what would be a strong young woman. Perhaps too strong for the most visually appealing band of secret agentsisland, if not however – for a whole cabal every Wonder Woman origin story has her quickly leaving home for the World of them working undercover as bimbo-looking models? The Showroom is one suchMen, and its main agent this Diana is Scarlett Couture, daughter the heroine of a male cop and a female fashionista-cum-agency bossyet another Wonder Woman origin story. Looking wonderful is incredibly easy for A shipwreck disturbs her – leading performance in a running race, but sometimes saving the world survivor she drags from the waters is quite only going to disturb a bit tougher…lot more...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782760628</amazonuk>1401282555

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jason Quinn and Naresh Kumar1401286208|title=World War TwoBlack Canary: Against the Rising Sun (Campfire Graphic Novels)|rating=4.5|genre=Children's Non-Fiction |summary=World War Two – so often a lesson subject for our primary school children, even after all this time. Nazis, Soviets, Pearl Harbor – but wait. That last wasn't just the clarion call to the Americans to join in with the rest of our Allies – it was a mere episode in a fuller story – the half of the war that was never seen by those in Europe, beyond the fact the British Empire was certainly changed forever. The War in the Pacific is something I was certainly never taught much about in school, at any age. And here's a graphic novel version of the tale from a publisher in India that can serve at last as a salutary lesson.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>9381182051</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewIgnite|author=Lewis Helfand Meg Cabot and Lalit Kumar Sharma|title=World War Two: Under the Shadow of the Swastika (Campfire Graphic Novels)Cara McGee|rating=4|genre=Children's Non-Fiction|summary=One of the most common subjects at primary school, getting on for three generations since it happened, is of course World War Two. It has the impact that sixty million dead people deserve – but only if it's taught correctly. One of the ways to present it is this book, which comes from a slightly surprising place – an Indian publisher completely new to me – but succeeds in being remarkably competent, complete and really quite readable.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>9381182140</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Al Ewing and Rob Williams et al|title=Doctor Who: The Eleventh Doctor, Volume 3: Conversion|rating=2|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=It is a truth universally acknowledged that if you want to judge the worth of a ''Star Trek'' TV series, you judge the theme tune. It's incontrovertible that they went downhill in unison, after all. It is also a truth universally acknowledged that the same applies to ''Doctor Who'', for the opening credits have definitely had their ups and downs over recent years. But you can also define the entertainment value of a series through the companions. Or at least you can with the 11th Doctor comic versions, which decided to pick up a Token Smart, Ballsy, Ethnic one, a bizarre, mercurially disembodied robot-type-with-limited-vocab one, and, er, a cod David Bowie one who relives the entire Ziggy Stardust lyric sheet through his witterings. I know, right? No hope. But can you give up hope with the genius, energetic, effervescent and witty Doctor around?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782763031</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Serge le Tendre, Regis Loisel and Ivanka Hahnenberger (translator)|title=The Quest for the Time Bird|rating=2.5

|summary=In order Meet Dinah Lance. Frustrated that her policeman father will not allow her to defeat try and follow in his footsteps, and seemingly lumbered with being a vengeful godcheerleader at school, who she is within days desperate to find her voice. But it's actually more a case of getting out of his prison – a sacred conch shell – several things must happen. Firsther voice finding her, the conch must be united with the witch powerful enough to sustain the incantation keeping him locked up. Then as when she must use gets frustrated or plain dissed at school her helpers to endure great danger and find the information she seeks in the most perilous of places for knowledge of the ultimate part of the puzzle – the Time Birdvocal outcry can shatter glass better than any opera singer. All this calls for heroesYou could almost call it a weapon, but or a power. But in the world of fantasy anyone can order for her to call themselves herself a hero – from the witch's own buxom daughter, Pelissesuperhero, there has to an old warrior called Bragon that the girl is forced be a whole path of steps for her to unite with and fight alongside.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782763627</amazonuk>take – one of which will be into her past…

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Alejandro Jodorowsky, Nicolas Fructus and Ivanka Hahnenberger (translator)1401280048|title=Showman KillerBatman: Heartless HeroNightwalker: The Graphic Novel|author=Marie Lu, Stuart Moore and Chris Wildgoose

|summary=A long way awayThe young man called Bruce Wayne is a very noticeable one – he can hardly go anywhere without people – bystanders, paparazzi, and suchlike – reminding him he's a billionaire at the age of eighteen. Feeling rather stuck with the legacy he's inherited from his murdered parents, he wants to do charitable deeds. But one night, when he speeds off in his posh new car in terms pursuit of both time a criminal, he goes too far as far as the authorities are concerned, and space, gets given the most perfect assassin unlikely stretch of community service instead – cleaning in the home for violent criminals that is formed Arkham Asylum. There he learns of some other people who also allege charitable intent – genetically bredthe Nightwalkers, adept at magical transformationsa gang who steal any ten-figure bank account contents they can, with the most athletic and deadly abilities, and with murder the complete lack of emotion neededowner. All Can he get close to one of them and get the truth of their schemes, or will ever seek is the highest price manipulative Madeleine be a step too far for the best job – a job that will, now and again, force him to meet with the most unusual people…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178276139X</amazonuk>young do-gooder?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jamie Hewlett, Alan Martin and others1401283292|title=21st Century Tank GirlHarley Quinn: Breaking Glass|author=Mariko Tamaki and Steve Pugh

|summary=I sometimes wonderHarleen Quinzel is new in town. She always, to me, when keying seems new in book reviewstown, even if ISBNs are not constructed by design instead she's been around a long time, for she always has a very fresh attitude, and seems to look out of the formal accident that is supposed to create themthose large eyes at everything anew each time. Surely it's intentional that this book has 666 But here she is new in its code – it's the most devilishly brashtown, ugly and foulthe town is Gotham City. Expecting a year-mouthed comic aroundlong furlough from life with her mother, she finds her gran dead and people who like that kind herself with no option but to stay with a bunch of thing will like thisdrag queens. Especially as this book She also finds school is a return to waaay distant formdrag, she also finds the whole neighbourhood is being redeveloped by a large and waaay distant creative partnerships, with the original artist Jamie Hewlett back uncaring corporation – but she also finds two characters that will have a big impact on boardher life. It's time to cuss One is a civil-minded lass called Ivy, the other someone she only meets at night – a lad with a singular graffiti tag and a mind for violence and roll once more…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782766618</amazonuk>chaos, who calls himself The Joker…

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Derf Backderf140128339X|title=TrashedMera: Tidebreaker|author=Danielle Paige and Stephen Byrne

|summary=For those people who think graphic novels are rubbish, this is Meet Mera. She's the epitome latest in a line of that baseless argumentyoung women intent on fighting against their intended destiny for one only they can see for themselves. Its subject is junkHer father, the king of Xebel, sees some cotton wool and a hunky man in an arranged marriage as her future – after all, itMera's trashmother, itthe territory's landfillwarrior queen, and garbageis long dead. ThatMera doesn's not a verdict on its qualitiest fancy the cosseting or the fella involved at all and is, which are great and fine onesin fact, but its very topic. Straight trying to get Xebel out from schoolunder the cosh of Atlantean power, our author was actually a bin man for a few seasons – riding on Xebel's royalty are merely puppets of Atlantean masters. So when she overhears her father request that her intended go to the back world of something like Bettyus air-breathing humans, and kill the garbage van featured here. It's a job nobody wants in all honestyAtlantis heir, of course – but the book is fine enough she rushes off to actually make get the subject something most people should read about.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1419714546</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Luke Pearson|title=Hilda quest (and the Troll|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Hilda, a rather delightful small, blue-haired girl, is never far from an adventurepromised throne) all for herself. She is confident and excitableBut of course, brave and creativeshe has no idea what kind of person she will meet, and her stories are slightly mad, and very, very readable!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1909263788</amazonuk>how hard it will be to get the job done…

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sven Hassel and Jordy Diago1401286399|title=Wheels of TerrorSuper Sons: The Graphic NovelPolarShield Project|author=Ridley Pearson and Ile Gonzalez

|summary=War books It's the near future, and anti-war books, every coastal city – including Metropolis – is in my mindneed of a huge flood barrier, built on its coast by Wayne Enterprises. But the rising sea levels have a lot put even those constructions under threat, forcing many people to relocate in common and only a couple of easy things need be changed to turn one to the otherAmerica's biggest exodus for decades. This Superman is dressed as an anti-war bookhelping out, but here is the lead character surviving against all odds of course – the platoon whittled down several times while he and his few friends go strong; here first, he is overcoming all kinds of difficulty and adversity and still coming out was patching up the other end; here dams, but now he is doing proper heroic deeds – or his colleagues saving 's mining the day at asteroid belt for a rare dust that's perfect for blocking the last minute – and the war carries onwards towards its inevitable endsolar energy from making further polar ice melt. The difference perhaps is Inland, in Wyndermere, the minutiae of what those difficulties and deeds need be, with refugees from the anti-war book having a simple honesty about them coast are suffering bigotry and their overall worth that the gung-hointolerance for being newcomers, militaristic piece would patently lackbut something else is much worse. And when you face the guts and gore A major bout of food poisoning is hitting the kind of warfare on these pages, you doncity. But it can't really expect jingoism possibly have anything to do with what looks like sabotage of the flood barriers and 'hoo-rah!' attitudes. No, even if the DNA is pretty much efforts to correct the sameclimate, the result here is definitely, grimly and firmly anti-war.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0297609769</amazonuk>can it? Four young children begin to piece together clues that it can…

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Joe Sugg168369015X|title=UsernameManfried the Man: EvieA Graphic Novel|author=Caitlin Major and Kelly Bastow

|summary=Meet Evie. She's surprisingly unwelcome and alienated at school – for In a trendy and attractive girlworld where cats stand on two feet, nobody go to work at all seems to call centres and have any time diminutive human beings for herpets, apart from the geeky card-collecting boy with the milk-bottle glasses on the busis Manfried. Perhaps it has something to do with her fatherHe's thatched house a typical frisky but shy pet – after allforever getting into scrapes, demanding more food than he can suitably eat, but at the same time being the perfect companion for his owner, she must be a witch to live thereSteve Catson. It's not To such an extent that she would wish to live thereSteve, with nobody else around, and the memory of her deceased mother. But luckily someone who is choosing a place getting known for her –her father is able to put all his work into a cyberman-world for heroriented thinking, the E-Scape, which is close to actually having nightmares about becoming the perfect worldneighbourhood ''crazy man cat''. All that remains is to programme the humans to be her friendsBut when a window gets left open by mistake, and make Manfried goes missing, the connection Evie has with them only thing for it is a massive and them with her in return to be of mutual, confirming, happy benefit. But someone else has entered the Eenergised man-Scape, and their influence seems all that much more powerful than Evie's tentative happiness…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473619130</amazonuk>hunt…

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Michael B Jackson, Martin Brennan and Simon BisleyHainsworth_Gina|title=13 CoinsTalking to Gina|author=Ottilie Hainsworth|rating=34.5

|summary=''For the love of money This is the root of all kinds of evilwhat happened.'' There, I've done it An artist decided she needed a dog – quoted so drove the Bible in a review. It's certainly pertinent in length of the world of this graphic novelcountry, Brighton to Grimsby, where the fallen angels have to pick up an Eastern European immigrant street dog with some mange and one get-out clause they have been seeking since those very lapsarian eventsworking eye. They turned Why not? The first night at home, Gina – the dog – eats something she shouldn't and causes a little section of chain holding their leader eternally captive into the titular coinsmess, which can influence the human holders into sheer evilso it's not a great start, but might just cause an open war on Heaven, whether they or then begin the best tribulations of the holy on earth use them training, status and behaviour allhumans must go through with their dogs. The best of the holy And then, offspring of the good angelslife with Gina begins to feel like too much – ''I felt weird about you because you were always there. My thoughts were taken over by you, and I felt sick, are culled as a routineif I was in love.'' Slowly, however, but not one everyone – John Poznerour artist/author, who of course has no idea of his place in her husband, two children and two cats – gets to form the celestial circle of life…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178276061X</amazonuk>family they and Gina all would have wanted.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= StrefColfer_Illegal|title=J.M. Barrie's Peter Pan: The Graphic NovelIllegal|author=Eoin Colfer and Andrew Donkin|rating=45

|summary=HereEbo is twelve years old and all alone. His sister left for Europe months ago and now he doesn's a quiz question for you – despite t know where his brother is either but knows that he has probably done the uniform seventy year copyright rule, which work same thing. So Ebo has been to attempt the same dangerous journey himself. He must cross the sole recipient of an endless extension of itSahara Desert, courtesy of an ex-Prime Minister? The answer is obvious now at leastget himself to Tripoli, as this is one such volume. It's a very readable and pleasant variant on J M Barrie's original stage version and novel regarding Peter Panof the most dangerous cities in the world, which of course helps and always will now help then try to cross the Great Ormond Street Children's HospitalMediterranean Sea. By himself. At twelve. And for a boy who never grows up, at 111 years old even if he makes it, how will he's in spritely good health.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780272901</amazonuk>find his sister?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Peter O'Donnell and Enric Badia RomeroMiller_Batman|title=Modesty Blaise - The Killing Distance|rating=4.5|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=''Oh, such things just HAPPEN to that pair, Sir.'' The pair referred to, of course, are Modesty Blaise, sexy femme fatale with a head full of morals and a pair of legs full of kicking power, and Willy Garvin, the only man to call her ''Princess'' and get away with it – intelligent, practical and yet equally resilient in a fight with a baddy. The things that happen to them are legion, over many novels and 95 daily newspaper comic strips, and this is one of the better examples of the current collections of the latter. Where else can you get movie stunts going wrong, pregnant women in danger on the high seas, and people escaping from bomb-laden planes, all in a Jolly Hockey Sticks mood that smacks of pastiche and vintage ribaldry, were it not from the heady days of the mid-'90s?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781167125</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Ian Edginton and Alex Sanchez|title=The Evil Within|rating= 3.5|genre= Graphic Novels|summary=What do you fear most? And when you've answered that, think on why – is it something that happened to you, something you saw or read, or something you yourself did? Batman: Dark Knight III: The nature of horror is looked at in this graphic novel, which spins the usual web of nightmares around some fit young adults, and tests them with graphic death on the cards at the same time as keeping them in the dark about what has brought the doom and gloom to them. Starting with Dana, a college girl seeking her kidnapped best friend, things get darker, weirder, and forever more violent…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782761659</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewMaster Race|author=Eric Colossal|title=Rutabaga the Adventure Chef: Book 1|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Meet the latest adventurer to scour the land. He has a talent for finding the obscure Frank Miller and seeking out the rare, and surviving all the undignified fates the world has in store. He even has a magical companion. He will be open to any challenge set upon him, from locating dragon-smiting swords to besting the largest, most locally loved, rival. He is Rutabaga, and he is, of course, a chef.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1419715976</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Mark Millar and John Romita Jr|title=Kick-Ass 3Brian Azzarello

|summary=At the start of this book, Hit-Girl Batman is stuck in a super-max prison (donnot playing ball. He't ask why)s been videoed duffing up Gotham policemen, and not the baddies he usually biffs. The entire east coast Mafia command is up for grabs (you donBut then he't need to ask why s not Batman – Hit-Girl killed most of them herself). As for Dave, or Kick-Ass, he's failing. He has a whole cohort of other super-heroesshe, which and she finally comes up with the news that Batman died in this world means dweebish fans her hands. Elsewhere, Lara, the daughter of comics Superman and Wonder Woman, is encouraging Ray Palmer/The Atom to turn his technologies concerned with a stupid costume yet no power other than shrinking and expanding life to the determination to do well for societyminiaturised city of Kandor, but they're the last vestige of Kryptonian existence not going anywhereto fly about in visible blue pants. They're not spotting crime or solving conspiraciesWhat with Superman sitting idle in an exposed Fortress of Solitude having gone into a sulk, and they're certainly not getting their colleague and mentor Hit-Girl out of jail. Dave could in actual fact Batman dead, there would appear to be little in danger the way of help for the most heinous crime world should anything nasty happen – but then, of all – growing up.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783290870</amazonuk>course, something nasty does happen… s

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Peter A DavidWeeks_Gritterman|title=The Avengers Vault|rating=3|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=It's not just because the third richest take of any movie is about to get a sequel that we have this pictorial background guide. There have been decades of action featuring the main characters of The Avengers, and they themselves are fifty years old as a collective entity, so this book has a lot of ground to cover. To its benefit there are hardly any mentions of the global behemoth that are Marvel films these days, beyond a couple of references where relevant. Instead we're looking back, with bright and eager eyes, to see what we can find, what the beginner may need to know, and what the fan will have fond memories of.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781313989</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewGritterman|author=Winshluss|title=In God We TrustOrlando Weeks|rating=4.5

|summary=To start with, There's a rhetorical testman who has an ice cream van. How about God and Adam playing badminton day in and day outIn summer, until one gets bored and decides to create Eve? Or the defeater of Goliath and the saviour what there is of the Israelites being one Conan the Barbarian? Or this as a test – Jesus Himself failing to have a successful session of tequila slammers with Gabriel due to the holes through His hands? I barely need mention that in these pages God does battle with Supermansummer, for you he uses it to have answered the test and put yourself firmly in one of two camps for this book – one very much opposed to buying itsell ice creams, and one very much in favour.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0861662350</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Patrick Modiano, Sempe (illustrator) and William Rodarmor (translator)|title=Catherine Certitude|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=What little I know of Patrick Modiano was gained from the number of That'nos not his vocation though, we've never heard of but it does keep him, either' articles and summaries that came our way when going whilst he won the Nobel Prize waits for Literature at winter when the end of 2014van becomes a Gritting Van and our narrator becomes a Gritterman. They suggested his oeuvre was matureThe fibreglass 99s on the roof light up and rotate, slightly thriller-based but not exclusively soplaying a tune, and asked lots of accumulative questions regarding identity with regard to whether the Vichy government during WWIIvan's gritting or selling ice creams. Identity is a lot more fixed in this musing little piece, for the adult voiceTonight - Christmas Eve -over looks back over a wide remove, and says there will always be a little bit of her living the events and situations of van's last trip. The council has sent the bookletter about his services no longer being required. Those situations are of Global warming. Dying profession, they say. There's even a young dancetarmac now that can de-school attendeeice itself, and her loving and much-loved father, living but the Gritterman isn't sure that he wants to live in a cosy life in Paris – even if world where the girl never once really works out what it is her father does for a living…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783443022</amazonuk>B2116 doesn't need gritting.