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[[Category:New Reviews|Humour]]==Humour==__NOTOC__ {{newreviewFrontpage|author=PJ VanstonDean Koontz|title=CrumpThe Bad Weather Friend|rating=34.5|genre=General FictionParanormal|summary=It's Kevin Crump's first Benny is having a terrifically bad day as . He loses his job, he loses his fiancee, and his house gets trashed. Oh, and someone has delivered a lecturer at Thames Metropolitan University really weird, disturbing coffin- an ex-polytechnic. Itsized object to his home, and it's possible that whoever or whatever was inside is the happiest day of thing that has trashed his lifehouse! The thing is, and he can't wait Benny is the very last person to see deserve all this bad luck. He is a nice person. A really nice person. So fortunately for Benny it turns out that it holdsthe delivery to his house is a new friend, and make a difference bad weather friend called Spike, who has been sent to all his studentshelp him since Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for being a good person. And then it hits him: the relentless pettiness Spike is going to take care of authority figuresBenny, the students who canand will certainly take care of Benny't string two sentences togethers enemies, the lowering of standards in search of higher test scoresif he, so more money from foreign studentsBenny, and political correctness gone Harper (as I believe the saying goesa waitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny's wild adventure) madcan figure out who exactly they are.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1848762852</amazonuk>1662500491

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=John Lennon1529153050|title=In His Own Write and A Spaniard in the Works|rating=3|genre=Humour|summary=During the height of Beatlemania, John Lennon used to doodle or write short poems or nonsense stories to pass the time (and there must have been a good deal of time to pass away on tour, if only waiting for screaming fans to leave them alone and go back home). Some of them were seen by Tom Maschler, literary editor at Jonathan Cape, who encouraged him to produce more. The results were published in two very successful short books in 1964 and 1965.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099530422</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewBritain's Best Political Cartoons 2022|author=John Lindsay|title=Emails From An AssholeTim Benson

|summary=Some classified ads are crying out for trolling. John Lindsay replies Seeking some light relief from the current political turmoil which is coming to them, spins them a yarnseem more and more like an adrenaline sport, and strings them along for as long as possibleI was nudged towards ''Britain's Best Political Cartoons of 2022''. Sometimes Sharp eyes will have noted that we're not yet through the advert is fairly innocuous and he emails them anyway. These are emails year: the cartoons run from an asshole, after all4 September 2021 to 31 August 2022.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1402778279</amazonuk> Who can imagine what there will be to come in the 2023 edition?

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=L C Tyler1785633074|title=The Herring In The LibraryStaggering Hubris|author=Josh Berry

|summary=A J Jacobs has a reputation Members of Parliament like us to believe that the country is run by politicians, headed by the Prime minister - the ''primus inter pares'' (that's for setting himself onerous tasksthose of you who are Eton and Oxbridge educated) but the reality is that the ''prime'' movers are the special advisers - the SPADS - who are the driving force behind the government. His first book We are in the privileged position of having access to the memoirs of Rafe Hubris, the man who was about reading behind the skilful control of the entire Encyclopedia Britannica; his second detailed a year spent according to Covid crisis which was completely contained by the Biblical preceptsend of 2020. In My Experimental Life, You might not know the name now but he recounts nine briefer episodes of living outside his comfort zonewill certainly be the man to watch.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099547422</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Seth Grahame-Smith0571365884|title=Abraham Lincoln Vampire HunterMy Mess is a Bit of Life: Adventures in Anxiety|author=Georgia Pritchett|rating=3.54|genre=HumourAutobiography|summary='Give me your tiredGeorgia Pritchett has always been anxious, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shoreeven as a child.' That quote, on She would worry about whether the monsters under the Statue of Liberty, bed were comfortable: it was probably not designed with the inclusion sort of vampires in mindlife where if she had nothing to worry about she would become anxious but such occasions were few and far between. But by some means or another North America is rife with the things – hiding in plain sightOn a visit to a therapist, as the older ones can bear sunlightan adult, when she was completely unable to speak about what was wrong with the help of darkened glasses. It might just come her it was suggested that she should write it down to one eager young man to rid his new country and ''My Mess is a Bit of such things, on his way a Life: Adventures in Anxiety'' is the result - or so we are given to something he’s a bit more known forbelieve.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849014086</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jane Austen, Seth Grahame-Smith and Tony LeeJohn Boyne|title=Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: The Graphic NovelEcho Chamber|rating=35|genre=Graphic NovelsGeneral Fiction|summary=It Meet George Cleverley. He is a truth universally acknowledged that a zombie story self-defined as "one of the few television personalities over the age of any renown will not remain simply fifty without a zombie storycriminal record". Before you can say '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 risen undeadworld'' it will become a series s homeless with out-of books, inspiring others-date food, and/or lead to a fit young lad doing the same story being published gay hustle thing. Add in many different guises. Herea few other characters – therapists, thenlawyers, on its way random transgender types – that all have two very different connections to Hollywoodhis life, is Jane Austen’s story of Lizzie Bennet, the feisty young woman trying and you have something that suggests an almost farcical approach to ignore Mr Darcy while fighting off the ''manky unmentionables'' – at least she is until modern world. What suggests the hidden truths open up to herfarcical approach even more, however, just as is the soft soils of Hertfordshire do to yield their once-human remains. And fact this time it’s in graphic novel formis bloody funny.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1848566948</amazonuk>0857526219

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Carl McInerneyStephen Clarke|title=The Funniest Football Joke Book EverSpy Who Inspired Me|rating=3.54|genre=Confident ReadersGeneral Fiction|summary=Who scored the most goals in the Greek Mythology League? The centaur forwardThis is a spoof spy story, that isn't about James Bond. Badoom boom tshhhh Or Ian Fleming. It's But it features a football joke bookman called Ian Lemming, packed to who dresses well and 'likes the gills with all sorts of cheesiness ladies' and silliness. Funniest ever? Perhaps notwho works for the secret service, but it's not too bad.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849391114</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Paul Magrs|title=Hell's Belles|rating=3.5|genre=Humour|summary=The idea behind this series in the planning side of novels is quite enchanting and amusingthings more than the active service. Frankenstein's daughter is living and sleuthing in Whitby, ably aided and abetted by her sidekick, the enigmatic Effie, and Lemming finds himself put on a mission with a growing menagerie of younger accomplicesfemale spy called Margaux, namely Michael and Penny. Whilst the original idea showed huge promise, I felt that the author has rather overdone it pair end up stranded in terms of outputNormandy, in his desire with Margaux on a desperate mission to capitalise on his original success. Book two unearth traitors in the series was quite disappointingresistance network, relying on sensationalism rather than adequate plot and character development. Book three was an improvement-and I'm delighted Lemming desperately trying to report that this, the fourth book in the series, shows him returning to form keep up with the promise we saw in the first of the series.her!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0755346467</amazonuk>2952163855

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Valerie Thomas Afonso Cruz and Korky PaulRahul Bery (translator)|title=WinnieKokoschka's JokesDoll

|genre=Confident ReadersLiterary Fiction|summary=Who turns off the lights at Halloween? The lights witch. What does an Australian witch ride on? A broomerang. YepWell, it's this looked very much like a joke book.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0192729063</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Nick Wadley|title=Man + Dog|rating=4.5|genre=Humour|summary=Throughout my life I've lived with dogs or deeply regretted could love from the fact that get-go, which is why I lacked a canine companionpicked my review copy up and flipped pages over several times before actually reading any of it. Watching I found things to potentially delight me each time – a dog – or better stillweird section in the middle on darker stock paper, a chapter whose number was in the interaction between dogs – is infinitely better than anything 20,000s, letters used as narrative form, and so on television and . It intrigued with the subterranean voice a man hears in wartorn Dresden that what little I knew of itmentioned, too. But you's sheer joy to see how man ve seen the star rating that comes with this review, and dog interacts and howcan tell that if love was on these pages, so often, they hold a mirror up to each otherit was not actually caused by them. So what happened?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1564785521</amazonuk>1529402697

 {{newreview|author=The Harvard Lampoon|title=Nightlight: A Parody of Twilight |rating=3.5|genre=Humour|summary=Most people will have heard of the worldwide phenomenon that is [[Twilight by Stephenie Meyer|Twilight]]. The books by Stephenie Meyer and the film have made a legend of the romance between vampire Edward Mullen (Robert Pattinson plays the movie role) and teenage schoolgirl Bella Swan (Kristen Stewart).|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849013330</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Steven Lowe and Alan McArthur |title=Is it Just Me or Has the Shit Hit the Fan?: Your Hilarious New Guide to Unremitting Global Misery|rating=3|genre=Humour|summary=''The banks fell over like fat Labradors running over a wet kitchen floor.'' Surely that is the wackiest, most inappropriate simile for the credit crunch and all it has done for the world. You won't get any such namby-pamby animal likenesses from these authors, instead with quite a potty mouth on them they will lambast the modern world, the entire banking system, all those who failed to see it coming, and those millions just seemingly waiting for us all to revert to high-interest, high-risk, high-lending capitalism, so they can get back on the expenses train, and back up the rich lists.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847443656</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Eoin ColferB08KKQ85FN|title=And Another Thing ... Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Part Six of Three (Hitchhikers Guide 6) |rating=3.5|genre=Science Fiction|summary=Of all the big books announced for this year, this one must have raised more eyebrows than many. Why try and write a new Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy book, when way before the end, its creator Douglas Adams was proving quite hopeless at such a task? And why approach an Irishman, Eoin Colfer, when the originals - tempered with their humour which could only be described as Monty Python doing a sci-fi Terry Pratchett, and with their cups of tea and dressing gowns, could only be described as very English? Well the answer is most evident - Colfer is a world-beater when it comes to knocking up a story.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0718155149</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=The Vampire Miles Proctor|title=The New Vampire's Handbook|rating=3.5|genre=Humour|summary=I shall start with a prediction. I will not become a vampire, for this imminent Hallowe'en, any festive fancy dress parties, or indeed for life as the lifeless undead. I will not need tips on filing my fangs, or how to divert attention from the fact I cannot eat human food at dinner parties. Me and my reflection in mirrors will remain intact. But for those of you reading this at night, somewhere, flameproof cape at hand, with your distaste of garlic, publicity and presumably the anaemic, this is the sterling how-to lifestyle guide.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0224086464</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewNever For Lunch|author=David O'Doherty, Claudia O'Doherty and Mike Ahern|title=100 Facts About Pandas|rating=3.5|genre=Humour|summary=Sometimes the title says it all - this is a book with 100 facts about pandas. Sometimes you need to note the author too - David O'Doherty won an Edinburgh Comedy Award, so this is a book of a 100 silly and untrue facts about pandas.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0224086324</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Richard Horne |title=A is for Armageddon|rating=2.5|genre=Humour|summary=The world is definitely going to hell in a handcart. We're only just preventing lethal global warming by having a credit crunch that has prevented a lot of big building, air travel, and consumerism. The population is getting so obese there is no room for any more of us - and add that to the exploding population statistics, and it's never going to look better. And don't get me started on where all the bees have gone...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0224086197</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=James May|title=Car Fever: Dispatches From Behind The WheelSandra Aragona

|genre=LifestyleShort Stories|summary=Now, way back when I was younger, and watched TV ''If a woman approaching the menopause can be likened to a lotRottweiler in lipstick, I am sure I remember Top Gear as being an Ambassador nearing retirement resembles a consumer programme. How times change. These days I am sure they destroy more cars than they review, and pampered peacock about to be released into the three main people from the show are approaching superstar statuscompany of carrion crows or, with their amenable personalities, awkward wardrobe choices and trenchant laddish charms. They've sprung their media entities from out of more to the studiopoint, into other TV programmes, and about to discover the real world of journalism, with chatty columns in the broadsheets allowing them free rein to witter to their heartbus timetables and paying his own gas bills.'s desire. And here, in one grandiloquent volume, and in time for Christmas, are many of James May's desires.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340994533</amazonuk>}}

{{newreview|author=Jane Austen 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 Seth Grahame-Smith Beagle Survive Diplomacy by Sandra Aragona|title=Pride Sorting the Priorities]] and Prejudice 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 Zombies|rating=4.5|genre=Humour|summary=Ah, the benefits for Sandra Aragona to a good book become The Wife of a classic first lineFormer Ambassador.. 'Call me Ishmael.' 'It was a bright cold day They have left The Career and settled in April, and the clocks were striking thirteenRome.' Who can forget Iain BanksWell ' settled'It was rather overstates the day my grandmother exploded'? Or those timeless words by Jane Austensituation and their dog, Beagle, 'It is a truth universally acknowledged that a zombie in possession has no intention of brains must be in want of more brainsslowing down any time soon, despite being sixteen and deaf.'|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1594743347</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Harry HillB08GFSK2WZ|title=Tim The Tiny Horse At LargeKarma Trap|author=Lisette Boyd

|genre=HumourWomen's Fiction|summary=ItGeorge Jackson is thirty-three years old, absolutely gorgeous to look at - and single. She's been a while since Tim not had sex for eight months and Flyshe's [[Tim stuck in the Tiny Horse by Harry Hill|last adventures]], and changes are afoot in Tim's tiny worldkarma trap: Fly an awful lot of bad luck is getting married to his girlfriendbeing visited on her and she has a real talent for attracting drama. Tim Her life's a little worried because they've only known each other for a week. The marriage goes ahead, and Tim finds himself kicking his heels, so he gets a pet. And so chaotic: she dealt with the leak from the brief episodes in shower by putting something down at the life bottom of a horse who lives in a matchbox continue.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571244157</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Spike Milligan|title=The Magical World of Milligan|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Some people you just have the stairs to love. It's absorb the water - then the shower fell through the law. Spike Milligan roof whilst she was always fantastic, in it and he's much missed. He's got the perfect mix of nonsenseleft her, heartstark naked, and surreal humourstaring at the pervy postman. He speaks She only has to people of all ages, and hetake her mother's just plain lovelydog out for a walk for her to end up with dog poo spattered across her face - and a photo being taken by someone who shares it around the office. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1905264844</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sam SavageDavid C Mason|title=The Cry of the SlothPandora's Gardener|rating=3.5|genre=General FictionCrime|summary=Meet Andrew Whittaker. In some untold time of recent American historyJohn Cranston is a gardener, although what he is forced through did before he became a failed marriage and an artistic temperament at odds with so many other peoplegardener, to let properties to tenants he does not likeclaims, for $120 a monthis classified. The lodgers might not like the state of the buildings - ceilings falling through and so on - but that's another matter. He would much prefer That is just as well because he is about to be left alone caught up in front of his little Olivetti typewriter and create art. He runs a literary journalcriminal / spy / terrorist plot, of a kind, called "Soap", which no-one likes, no-one reads (and often, with dodgy, cheap printing, no-one could physically read it anyway), and which makes him poorer in time, money and spiritwhere only he can save the day.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0297856499</amazonuk>0956180523

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Christopher MooreJester_Forever|title=You SuckForever After: a dark comedy|author=David Jester

|genre=HumourHorror|summary=You know that old adage about books and covers? Well this Michael Holland is a case in pointcocky and brash young man who dies and gets made the offer of his lifetime; immortality. The title isn't greatWe follow Michael, but the cover design for the paperback imprint is, like, duh!a grim reaper and his friends, the pits. It is so uncool…so unrep-resent-ative of the book. This is not Chip (a cocktail thing. Not even stoner tooth fairy) and Naff (a "Bloody Mary" thing.  Well, except for stoner in the tiny bit that is, but you'll discover that records department) as they grapple with their long lives and finding a clean surface to sit on in due coursetheir flat.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841498092</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Hugh Murr and Sid Nigtures 1683691172|title=Cyber Sign OffsWilliam Shakespeare's Much Ado About Mean Girls|author=Ian Doescher|rating=2.5

|summary=I admit I had the wrong end of the stick when it came to this bookA long time ago, before I opened it at least. I had assumed it was in a collection of real-life on-line signatures - we've all seen themgalaxy far away, those straplines people have on all their forum posts. The obvious response would have been along the lines of 'fair enoughStar Wars films were crunched up against Shakespeare, but why is this and the marriage seemed a book perfectly suitable one. So much so – so easily did the plots and characters converse in this day Shakespearean dialogue, and agebehave with Shakespearean stage directions – that the producers tried again, and not a website?with [[William Shakespeare's Get Thee Back to the Future! by Ian Doescher|Back to the Future]] no less. And that worked. But nosimultaneously they put a real test out. A film I can't even really remember seeing was transcribed into the original Elizabethan lingo. This is a collection of dialogues between two people - shall we call them Sue deNim and Allie ByeA cult following I had never followed whatsoever was given the brand new, yet oh so ancient, who have a line or two dressing. Here was the true challenge – would I manage to say to each otherenjoy this, and a made-up name (sorry, make that May Dupp-Name) with which to sign it off. Much jolly nonsense ensues.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1904312497</amazonuk>based on little foreknowledge? Oh damn those shiny gold stars for letting the game away…

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tim Fitzhigham 168369094X|title=All at Sea: One Man. One Bathtub. One Very Bad Idea: Conquering William Shakespeare's Get Thee Back to the Channel in a Piece of PlumbingFuture!|author=Ian Doescher

|summary=The word ''Twitter'' doesn't occur 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 Joe Stretch's vocabularyShakespearean pentameter, but that's what his book is aboutcolliding two entirely different genres and styles in such a clever way they seemed perfectly suited. Life It was then duly repeated for all the other films in the blogospheremain Star Wars cycle, massively exaggerated, where people donand clearly someone't leave s buffing their desks but nevertheless come together (but never literally) in satisfying their deepestquills ready for Episode Nine, darkest desires. If the title of which became public knowledge the day before I've made it sound even faintly exciting, believe me, Joe Stretch is a fantasist with realist tendencieswrite. What he is after is laughter; what he produces is a virtual simulacrum. Sniggery-pokery In the hiatus, jiggery-jokeryhowever, he tinkers the effort has been made to see if the same shtick works with the twilight zone of a future-scenario whereother texts, for reasons beyond all understanding, some robotic and literal Dickhead (i.e. a man with a dick fixed to his forehead – I kid you not) decides to target a few selected humans for a make-over riff on other seemingly unlikely source materials in his own imageiambs. Given that virtual worlds exist And could we have anything more suitably unsuitable-seeming than Back to pull in punters who don't like themselves in the real oneFuture, with its tales of time travel, bullying, and their main purpose is to make money, one's only question must be: whyparent/child strife like no other?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099532077</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Michael Marr1473669065|title=Three JumpersQueenie Malone's Paradise Hotel|author=Ruth Hogan

|summary=Common opinion has it that Tilda returns to Brighton, to tidy away the television programme remains of her mother''Time Team'' did s life after her death. Whilst there, she returns to the Paradise hotel, a lot haven for the public image eccentrics and misfits. A place where people can be themselves, and let go of archaeologists – bringing thoughts that torment them out elsewhere. Little wonder that Tilda cannot forgive her mother for banishing her as a child, from this place of their holes in wonder. With the groundhelp of Queenie Malone, caring, and making them seem like excitinggregarious, interesting people Tilda begins to pick apart the tricky and uncertain relationship she had with a good way of putting their knowledge across. However it was clearly a much harder task when it came to those background artistes they have her sometimes, walking up cruel and down in Roman centurion gear, or living the historical lifestyle as a re-enactmentdistant mother.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0224077813</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=L Vaughan Spencer1683690346|title=Don't Be Needy Be SucceedyThe Con Artist|author=Fred Van Lente

|summary=Are you underperforming in your business Comic-Cons are a place of wonder and personal lives? Do you underestimate the importance of good hair sanctuary for many people, and moisturised skin in achieving your life goals? Are you stumbling through life in a Fastwhen Comic book artist Mike Mason arrives at San Diego Comic-Moving Business Environment (FMBE) without a motivational mantra to guide you? Then you need this book. As Con, he''The A to Zee s looking for both that and sanctuary with other fans and creators, plus the chance of Motivitality''maybe, just maybe reuniting with his ex. However, when his rival is found dead, this Mike is a dictionary forced to navigate every dark corner of achievement the con in order to clear his name – from cosplay flash mobs and intrusive fans to zombie obstacle courses – Mike must prove his innocence and, in doing so, may just unravel a man who can teach you how to succeed like dark secret behind a toothless budgielegendary industry creator.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846681634</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mark Crick 1473669588|title=Sartre's Sink: The Great Writers' Complete Book of DIYFalling Short|author=Lex Coulton

|summary=''SartreLex Coulton's Sink'' comprises fourteen short debut novel is a story parodies of some of the world's best known writers – the twist being that the stories are all about undertaking some mundane DIY task such as tiling a bathroom (Dostoevsky) or reglazing a window (Milan Kundera). So far it sounds a bit like some pretentious Oxbridge student twaddle. You can just imagine how the idea came up over an over-ripe Brie and an underrated bottle of 1963 Taylor's port. It also rather smacks of that Radio 4 programme which I detest with an absolute passion - I can't even stand writing its name, ugh - ''Quote Unquote''mistakes, in which parodies do featurefailures, read out by smug self-congratulatory writer darlings (you can tell I don't like it, can't you?)and relationships. HoweverThe main protagonist, dear readersFrances Pilgrim, this book is rather enjoyable and I speak as someone a sixth form English teacher who is rather less versed in the writings of this famous lot than I care to admit.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847080472</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Eric Nakagawa|title=I Can Has Cheezburger |rating=4|genre=Pets|summary=''I Can Has Cheezburger'', is a clever and witty anthology of some of the has recently fallen out with her best pictures and captions from the fantastic [http://icanhascheezburger.com/ lolcats website] of the same name. The site has been growing in popularity in recent monthsfriend Jackson, and so it was inevitable that a book would soon hit the shelves. Choosing which pics to include in the book could not have been an easy task, work colleague and some of the old favourites are there, alongside some less well known ones.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340977574</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Ian Crofton|title=History Without the Boring Bits|rating=5|genre=History|summary=I was never one for history, and in fact left is grappling with the dregs increasingly eccentric behaviour of a history teacher in tatters when I scraped through with a Dher mother. Still, history This relationship is an odd thing – written complicated by the winners of course, and annoyingly biased in my mind towards the plain. Therefact that Frances's no real reason to remember the order of Henry VIII's six wives, but we can only relish the one credited with polydactylism, a third nipple and whatnot (the second one, in fact – whoever that father disappeared at sea when she was)five years old.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847243746</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jim Holt1683690133|title=Stop Me If YouMy Lady've Heard Thiss Choosing|author=Kitty Curran and Larissa Zageris

|summary=As far as I can rememberYou are a lass of twenty-eight. Plucky, my first time penniless and in print was when I submitted some jokes Regency-era London the race is on to find a charity's themed joke collectionsuitable suitor - or else doom yourself to life as an eternal spinster. Before thenAlong your journey, some of my first actions as you'll be accompanied by Lady Evangeline Youngblood - a fiesty noble eager to save you from a child might have been laughinglife alone, and what is cuter in fired by a baby than that? But why was that infant laughing – he didnrogueish sense for adventure. When it comes to suitors though, you't ll have a joke he could getto make the ultimate decision between witty, pretty and wealthy Sir Benedict Granville, wholesome, rugged and caring Captain Angus MacTaggart, or the mad, bad and terrifyingly sexy Lord Garraway Craven. With orphans, werewolves, long lost lovers and ancient Egyptian artefacts along the way, surely?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184668109X</amazonuk>it's clear this isn't going to be an easy decision...

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=P G Wodehouse Stibbe_Xmas|title=Joy in the MorningAn Almost Perfect Christmas|author=Nina Stibbe

|summary=''Joy in Christmas – the Morning'' is another novel from Ptime of traditional trauma.G. Wodehouse's wonderful series of books You only have to think about Bertram Wooster and Jeeves. Bertie is the turkey for that – once upon a young gentleman of inherited means and no present occupation. He is a good humoured and well-meant chap, however clearly not time it was leaving it sat on the smartest tool in the shed. Bertie seems downstairs loo to have a talent of getting himself into trouble but that is where Jeevesdefrost overnight, his loyal, educated and painfully clever butler comes to his rescue. Jeeves is irreplaceable when if that failed the hair-dryer shoved inside it comes to saving Bertie from whatever creative, complicated and incredibly funny situations Wodehouse puts his characters through.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099513765</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=P G Wodehouse|title=Thank You, Jeeves|rating=4|genre=General Fiction|summary=Bertie Wooster treatment was once engaged to Pauline Stokeryour next best bet. It didnNowadays it't last very long – about forty eight hours, most of which Bertie spent in bed with a bad cold, if his memory serves him correctly. Its all having to make sure it's still embarrassing when he meets Pauline suitably free-range and her fatherorganic – but not too organic that you can go and visit it, particularly as and get too friendly with it was the father who was responsible for breaking off the engagement. Rather than to want to eat at the Savoy Grill where he spotted the Stokers, he goes home to his only consolation. Bertie plays the banjo. Unfortunately, he doesn't play it very well.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099513730</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Tom Holt |title=The Better Mousetrap|rating=4 |genre=Humour|summary=I approached this book with a fair degree of trepidationChristmas, as I had never heard of the author, and wondered if, when reading the synopsis, I was about to embark on a Terry Pratchett type novel (and I have to say, much though I admire his achievements, I'm not is of course also a fan time of Discworld!) However, my fears were unfounded, and from page one I found myself drawn into this clever and erudite novelgreat boons. Not having read the preceding novels in the series did put me at a slight disadvantage, but didnIt't detract from my enjoyment, and has certainly ensured that I'll read the others s cash in the near future. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841495034</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Philip Moore |title=Utterly Ridiculous|rating=3 |genre=Humour|summary=If I learned nothing else from this book, I now know of hand for a new profession: aircraft cleaner. For that is the trade lot of Dave, the hero of ''Utterly Ridiculous''. With little but a van and his torpid terrier Biggles, Dave roves the airstrips of southern England, titivating light aircraft.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1906221685</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=John Mole |title=I Was a Potato Oligarch: Travels plump people who can hire red suits and Travails in the New Russia|rating=1 |genre=Travel|summary=I remember getting this book in postbeards, reading the title and thinking no, even though I am Russian, I will try to be unbiased and judge it like I would judge any other book about was always a foreign country experience. I now have to regretfully admit I failed. In my defence, John Mole's focus on mocking the nation and country made that all too easy.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1857885090</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Clive Gifford|title=Teenage Kicks: 101 Things to Do Before You're 16|rating=3.5|genre=Humour|summary=Kids. They're bored godsend for postmen with all the time, aren't they? Nothing thank-you buy seems letters to have any longevity. I think they live in alternative dimension in which time passes much more slowly aunties you saw twice a decade that it does for harassed your parents. It's the only explanation. I think Clive Gifford must sympathise, because his latest book, Teenage Kicks, has a whopping 101 ideas to alleviate boredom and made you write out in long-hand as a clever challenge too - your bored child has to complete them all before they reach 16. At a measly £5.99, this book could represent the most wonderful value for money any parent could ever wish for.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340950617</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Jon Canter |title=A Short Gentleman|rating=4|genre=Humour|summary=The narrator of this spoof biography is a civil law barrister. Robert Purcell has been educated at Winchester and Oxford. He has modelled himself on his polite and restrained father, a High Court judge and, as a child, Robert maps out for the components his own expected adult life makers of Meltis Newberry Fruits – wifewell, two children, career – did they even try and the respect which he will gain from this, together with his undoubted intellectual superiority. At the age sell them any other time of eight, he writes a future Who's Who entry for himself, with all the academic and professional accolades he expects to garner.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0224077740</amazonuk>year?

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=George Saunders Doescher_Will|title=The Brain-dead MegaphoneWilliam Shakespeare's the Force Doth Awaken: Star Wars Part the Seventh|author=Ian Doescher

|summary=American author George Saunders is known for his short stories and fictionA long time ago, in a galaxy far away, there was a man called William Shakespeare, but he is also who was able to create a journalist series of dramatic histories full of machinations most foul, rulers most evil and rebellious heroes and heroines most sturdy. You may or may not have noticed the cinematic version of his original stage play for publications such as ''The GuardianForce Doth Awaken'', ''The New Yorker Magazine'' but here at last we get the actual script, complete with annoying-in-different-ways-to-before droids anew, returning heroes from elsewhere in his oeuvre, and ''GQ''people keeping it in the family til it hurts. And if you need further encouragement, don''The Brain-Dead Megaphone'' is t forget his first collection audience only demanded three parts of essays and itHenry VI – here the series is so popular we's an interesting proposition: sixteen pieces ranging from travel writing, literary appreciation, political essays, re on to surrealist short fiction.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0747594260</amazonuk>part seven – surely making this over twice as good…

 {{newreview |title=Tim the Tiny Horse|author=Harry Hill|genre=Humour|rating=4|summary=After doing even tiny bit of research I realised that I must be the only person out there who ever read Tim the Tiny Horse having never heard of the author. Thus, I have Move on to take another reviewer's word that it's "typical Harry Hill" and will make an attempt at reviewing Tim as a stand-alone. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571229565</amazonuk>}}[[Newest LGBT Fiction Reviews]]