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|author=AttaboyIan Doescher|title=William Shakespeare's the Force Doth Awaken: Star Wars Part the Seventh|rating=4.5|genre=Science Fiction|summary=A long time ago, in a galaxy far away, there was a man called William Shakespeare, who was able to create a 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 ''The Book Force Doth Awaken'', 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 people keeping it in the family til it hurts. And if you need further encouragement, don't forget his audience only demanded three parts of Henry VI – here the series is so popular we're on to part seven – surely making this over twice as good…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>159474985X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=James Goss and Russell T Davies|title=Doctor Who: Now We Are Six Hundred: A Collection of Time Lord Verse (Dr Who)|rating=4.5|genre=Children's Rhymes and Verse |summary=Consider the Doctor. Just how many birthday and Christmas gifts must he have to hand out each year, were he to keep in touch with even half of his companions? He would certainly need a few novelty gifts for some of them, say, for example, whimsical books of verse that pithily encapsulate the life of a Time Lord and that of some of Hugshis friends and enemies. As luck would have it, he has the space in his TARDIS to stock up in advance, so my advice to him – sorry, her – would be to pop along to his local Earth-based book emporium and get himself ready. And if you're working on a shorter timescale, with a shorter lifespan, and thinking perhaps just one gift season ahead, well my advice is pretty much the same.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785942719</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Annie Ingram|title=Conversations with Kammie

|genre=HumourPets|summary=A hug's It was something of a hug, OK? relief when I encountered Annie Ingram and her cocker spaniel Kammie. You either dosee, Annie knows something which has been self-evident to me for a long time: dogs are perfectly capable of communicating with humans and not just on a level of ''food!'', ''walk!'' or you don't'play!''. Some people might be a little more enthusiastic about the process whilst others are more elegant in the execution of the hugYou do require extensive training to become fluent, but basically most dogs will be perfectly willing to give their time to teach you just get on and all you have to do it is listen. Annie has studied hard: Kammie has trained her well and then forget about it, right?the pair have allowed us to share some of their conversations.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>08671979781785451995</amazonuk>

|author= Christopher FowlerCharles Harris|title= Bryant and May – The Burning ManBreaking of Liam Glass|rating=43

|summary= The Peculiar Crimes Unit (PCU) has a new set of overlordsA flawed but reasonably entertaining swipe at modern media. For reasons that were explored in the previous couple of outings they have been transferred There's plenty here to the City Of London Police. The Met are still the big players in the area. City of London Police only police the old city, the square mile, the financial district in other words, that has very little in the way of street crimelike, because no-one lives there anymore and the people who work there are, by plenty not to. But good structure and large, either too rich to need to steal, or too smart to have scramjet pace keep this one flying to do so on the streetsfinal page.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>08575220431908943823</amazonuk>

|author=Catharina Ingelman-SundbergFred Van Lente|title=The Little Old Lady Who Struck Lucky Again! Ten Dead Comedians: A Murder Mystery|rating=3.54|genre=Humour|summary=Following Nine comedians are invited to a remote Caribbean island under the success guise of working with Dustin Walker, a comedic legend. Each fits neatly into one of ''The Little Old Lady Who Broke All the Rules''archetypal comic stereotypes: Steve, the League of Pensioners are back – and this timewashed-up has-been who has fallen far from his early days; Zoe, they’re in Vegas! I haven’t read the first book but it was rising female star with a new stand-up special coming soon; Dante, who went from being a kid on my list when the opportunity arose streets to review this one. The idea of the League of Pensioners marching towards hardest working road comic in the business; Oliver, the child-like prop comic who can't get any respect from his peers; Janet, the insult comic who is past her prime; TJ, the nightly variety show host with a fairer world through fun reputation for harassing his female colleagues and frolics was hugely appealing to me guest acts; Ruby, the ultra-feminist YouTuber and Blogger with a chip on her shoulder; and this William, whose redneck character ''Billy the Contractor'' is a stand alone novel so I thought I would dive straight in with this onefar cry from his real personality as a posh millionaire.Of course, all nine agree because ''when God almighty walks down on a beam of light and asks for your help, what the hell else are you going to say?''|amazonuk=<amazonuk>14472749031594749744</amazonuk>

|author=WinshlussS Lynn Scott|title=In God We TrustElizabeth, William... and Me

|genre=Graphic NovelsHumour|summary=To start Ally is an ordinary woman withteenage children, a rhetorical testhusband and a job. How about God and Adam playing badminton day in and Then comes the day when ordinariness flies out, until one gets bored and decides to create Eve? Or the defeater of Goliath and the saviour of the Israelites being one Conan the Barbarian? window. Or this as It's not a test – Jesus Himself failing to have a successful session of tequila slammers with Gabriel due to coincidence that it's the holes through His hands? same day she finds Queen Elizabeth I barely need mention that in these pages God does battle with Superman, for you to have answered the test pantry and put yourself firmly the Bard of Avon in one of two camps for this book – one very much opposed her bath. What's she going to buying itdo? Well, Elizabeth and one very much in favour.Will have their own ideas about that!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>08616623501788037006</amazonuk>

|author=David Walliams and Tony RossE G Rodford|title=The QueenSurgeon's Orang-UtanCase: George Kocharyan Mystery 2|rating=54|genre=For SharingCrime |summary=The Queen felt trapped in In the palace with all those stuffed animals which she second instalment of this series, Private Investigator George Kocharyan has been given on foreign tourshired by a well-known local man to track down some missing valuables. There are mountains of them and every night she would dream of escaping. When her birthday drew near the family dutifully asked her what she would like as Bill Galbraith, a present. The Prince was thinking of world-famous surgeon at Cambridge's Addenbrooke's Hospital who hosts a goldpopular medical television programme, diamond encrusted stairlift whilst the Duke was considering a great big bottle of brandy. The Royal Baby has had some decorated thimbles his briefcase stolen by his live-in minddomestic servant, Aurora. According to Galbraith, but this briefcase contains confidential notes concerning an important patient of his at the Queen became just hospital. George agrees to look into the theft, assuming it will be a relatively easy and straightforward case – little snappish as she explained that what she really wanted was 'Onedoes he know, he's own orang-utan'. And she didn't mean about to enter a stuffed one, eitherworld of deceit and dysfunction.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0008135134178565005X</amazonuk>

|author=Jack SheffieldToni Jordan|title=Silent NightOur Tiny, Useless Hearts|rating=3.5|genre=General Women's Fiction|summary=I read a couple of Jack Sheffield’s books about five As predicted by Caroline and Janice's mother on Caroline and Henry's wedding day, their marriage is over, albeit 15 years ago, and enjoyed them very muchtwo daughters further along than predicted. They were written in Indeed, this is definitely not a similar style good weekend for Janice to those popularised by, for instance, James Herriot or [[:Category:Gervase Phinn|Gervase Phinn]], told mostly in be babysitting at Caroline's house. There's the first person, describing split and the author’s first couple awkwardness of years as Headmaster at the girls' schoolteacher being the other woman for a small village primary school in Yorkshirestart. Then there's that mistaken identity moment involving the neighbours. The village At least Janice is well adjusted and over her ex-husband Alec. She still dreams of Ragley is fictionalhim, as are most of the charactersyes, but it's so over! Just as well really… guess who's at the incidents and situations encountered are based on the author’s experience.door?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>05521670451760293814</amazonuk>

|author=J Robert LennonColin Taylor|title=See You In ParadiseThe Life of a Scilly Sergeant|rating=34.5|genre=Short StoriesTravel|summary=Lennon writes with Meet the Isles of Scilly. (I know they should be called that – the author provides a relaxedhandy guide to the etiquette of their name, easy style their nature and his characters are instantly recognisable as people from everyday walks of lifelocation, without being in any way stereotypicaletc. Many ) For our more distant readers, they're several chunks of granite rock out in the people in these stories are dealing Atlantic, where Cornwall is pointing, with normal frustrationsjust 2, and Lennon is cleverly detached enough not to make them individuals that you200 permanent residents. They're obviously supposed to root for (big on tourism, and big on growing flowers in the only exception is tropical climate the industrialist in Gulf Stream bequeaths them – although the eponymous tale, who weather is an archetypal capitalist fat cat)bad enough to turn any car to a rust bucket within years. There are some very clever characterisations – in ''Weber’s Head' They're so wee, and so idyllic-seeming, especially at night, you can be mistaken for thinking there would be no need for example, the narrator is a flawed individual whose opinions of his housemate are gradually revealed to be unreliable and unfairpolice presence. For me, the most unsettling story But there is ''No Life'', because it portrays a decent couple – at least two working at the mercy any one time. And one of people more powerful and influential than them. There is no supernatural or bizarre element at work herein recent years has been Colin Taylor, who has done his official duty – alongside maintaining a well-known online existence, just ordinary characters at which has brought to life all the mercy whimsical comedy of social powerhis work.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781253358178475515X</amazonuk>

|author=Lynne TrussJosie Lloyd and Emlyn Rees|title=Cat out of Hell|rating=3|genre=Horror|summary=Meet Alec Charlesworth. He's retired and decamped to an isolated coastal cottage with just his dog and loving memories of his colleague wife, now that she has died before her time. But the fusty librarian cannot rest too long before engaging in exploring some unusual computer files that were pinged across by someone at the college he worked at, just before he left. Bizarrely they show photographic and audio evidence of a talking cat called Roger, replete with Vincent Price voice – although they are also damaged by being included alongside some bad screenplay attempts about said cat. Worryingly, we soon see what at the most only a few of the characters can, that this cat is being accompanied by unusual and unexpected death – much like Alec's wife. It's only when Roger testifies to having been pushed through the ends of endurance and out the other side that we begin to doubt where Twas the true evil in this story lies…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099585340</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Jimmy Hansen and Mychailo Kazybird|title=Wallace & Gromit Fight Before Christmas: The Complete Newspaper Strips Collection Vol 2A Parody|rating=43.5

|summary=For me there are two important areas of the cover of this book where three letters are It's Christmas Eve and Mum has arranged in meaningful ways. The first is with the S-U-N in their obligatory red and white fonteverything. No minor paper could hold Wallace and Gromit, their adventures have All she now has to be in what do is (unfortunately) await the most widely read tabloid in arrival of the country. And elsewhere is C-B-E, suggesting that even the storytellers at Aardman Animations who are not household names are feted relatives and revered as artistic experts, raising many laughs and much money for the country courtesy of their creative outputfood shopping delivery. Together these short collections of letters show just how much WaG are major creations, and if Little does Mum know that those two elements alone have the proof was needed this much longer collection of their daily comic strips provides it in spadespotential to ruin everything.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>17827608221472125118</amazonuk>

|title=Dear Committee Members|author=Julie SchumacherRyan North|ratingtitle=4.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=Jason Fitger (Jay) is a Professor of creative writing Romeo and literature at a small university in the American mid-west. He is also a frustrated novelist with a colourful personal history, much of which bleeds into his professional life, with interesting results.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007586345</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Mapp and Lucia Omnibus|author=E F Bensonor Juliet

|summary=Miss Elizabeth Mapp rules For all those who think tragedy plots are too restricted and prescribed, read on. In these pages you too will see that Romeo had lots of options en route to hitting the town of Tilling - bottle. Likewise, she is the centre could have turned away from her predestined path at no end of the social lifejunctures. And to what result? Well, happy marriage and spends her days enjoying bridgea kid called Ben, polite conversation because the leads have just banged people's heads together and civilised painting. When Mrs Emmeline Lucas arrives in town stopped the quarrelling, or Death by Tybalt (known to all as Luciahim), Miss Mapp finds her or a long life truly shaken uprunning an establishment curing murderous women, such as the cultured, fashionable and progressive Lucia makes a Lady M (her home in the town, and swiftly rises to the top of the ranks amongst the social scene in Tilling).|amazonuk=<amazonuk>18499084780356508536</amazonuk>

|titleauthor=Encyclopedia ParanoiacaGervase Phinn|authortitle=Henry Beard and Christopher CerfThe Virgin Mary's Got Nits|rating=4.5|genre=Popular ScienceHumour|summary=We're screwed. Wherever Christmas in our house is the time we look, whatever we think of doing, there is tend to get on a reason why we shouldn't be doing it, plane and people head to back either sun or snow, anywhere that reason up with scientific data. Take any aspect of your daily life – what you eatis far, how you workfar away from the madness at home, how you rest evenlast minute dashes to the shops on Christmas Eve, what you touch – all have problems and food cupboard stockpiles that could provoke would imply supermarkets are shutting for a month, nor a serious illness or worsemere 36 hours. And outside that daily sphere there are economic disastersBut I do remember the feeling of Christmas when I was younger, nuclear meltdownsback when it was magical, errant AI scientists and passing comets that could turn our world upside down at back when you knew exactly what the blink of an eyeseason would bring with carol concerts and school nativities and Christmas parties. Perhaps then you better read this This book first – for is an anthology of those moments, and it may well turn out took me right back to be your last…the wonder of Christmas as a child.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>07156492131444779400</amazonuk>

|titleauthor=Diary of a Mad DivaKieran Crowley|authortitle=Joan RiversShoot|rating=3.54|genre=HumourCrime|summary=I make something of a habit of being late to discover good writers, in this case getting to Crowley after he is no longer with us. The late Joan Rivers wasresult is that what is billed as ''an F.X. Shepherd mystery'' with all the optimism of there being more to come has the poignancy of being, without if not the last of a doubtshort line, certainly one of a characterfew. F.X. ActressShepherd – he doesn't like his first name and prefers just "Shepherd" is, comediantechnically, writer, director, presenter, she was well known in the USA a columnist. He's been sacked by one New York newspaper and beyond is writing a weekly column for her sharp tongue and no holds barred personaanother. This was the last of I don't know much about journalism, but I'm guessing one column a week doesn't pay much as a rule…which explains why Shepherd's soap-washed-foul-mouthed editor (read the dozen books she publishedbook, her final title before her death you'll see what I mean) expects him to turn in September 2014some genuine journalism as well: front page, seat of your pants stuff.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>04252690271783296518</amazonuk>

|titleauthor=The Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy - The Nearly Definitive EditionGray Jolliffe|authortitle=Douglas AdamsThe First Ever Christmas: And Who to Blame

|genre=General FictionHumour|summary=There are few series that have garnered such If I tell you a cult following as secret, will you promise not to tell anyone? Well, I really don't like Christmas: it'The Hitchhikers Guide s my least favourite time of year and whilst some people count down to the Galaxyday itself, I look forward to that point when I can say that it's all over for another year. Whether the fans have come from the radio series It's all too commercialised for me, with a coating of faux religion. I've never found it in the (impossibly hard) computer gameleast funny - that is, or the (well intentioned but not particularly good) film, they are everywhereuntil I found Gray Jolliffe's ''The First Ever Christmas: And Who's to Blame''. Ask a room of people what the meaning of life isAmazingly, and you can be pretty sure a good few will pipe up with I'42d never encountered Gray Jolliffe either, but I' m a convert to his skills as a cartoonist (if not to the answeridea of Christmas) after reading this collection of Christmas-themed cartoons from his archive.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>04340233961445663503</amazonuk>

|titleauthor=Quick Pint After WorkJonathan Pugh|authortitle=Luke LewisPugh's New Year's Resolutions|rating=4.5

|summary=BuzzFeed is If there's one of the world’s best time sucksthing that's for certain, and I’m regularly directed to it's that the site by links from Facebook and Twitterworld is changing. We're dating online, we're communicating in between browsing the app on my phone. According to the author bio on this bookways that make email seem redundant, BuzzFeed is and when we're shopping we just tell a social news website where and entertainment company'when it can be delivered, which and how much leeway they have to swap our wishes for whatever it is they do bring us. But those changes are also supposed to be affecting us – we're supposed to use a fancy way of describing lots of fun lists that speak smart watch to the readership (20 words that tell us if we're moving or not, we have a completely different meaning in Manchester, 30 Things all ex-gymnasts know to be true, 40 Very British problems, yadda yadda yadda). These list work well on line when you want a quick distractionkeep up with the latest fads, and they’re easy we're supposed to flip through, looking at prick our ears up and take note when the attached photos or video clips. The question then, is whether or not BuzzFeed the book will have the same appealproverbial 'they' change their minds about what we're supposed to eat.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>07515577301780722885</amazonuk>

|author=Graeme SimsionLuke Rhinehart|title=The Rosie EffectInvasion|rating=4.5|genre=Humour|summary=Following inadvertent success with the Wife ProjectSuper-intelligent furry aliens suddenly appear from another universe. And they've come to earth to have fun. Alien Louie follows fisherman Billy Morton home one day, Professor Don Tillman and he and his new bride Rosie have moved family quickly come to love the playful alien. But when Louie starts using their computer to hack into government and corporate networks, stealing millions from Australia banks to give to New Yorkothers, they realise that Louie and his friends mean trouble. Although DonAs Billy and his family begin a roller coaster ride of fame and fortune, as well as a ranking high on the FBI's position on most wanted list, the autistic scale is subjective, he still operates on a daily basis of structured proceduresGovernment soon decides that these aliens are terrorists, lists and logicmust be eliminated. Rosie can generally handle that but there Whilst the aliens are choppy waters ahead. With playing games they hope will help humans to see the patter insanity of tiny feet imminent logic goes out the window as she struggles with her PhD while Don struggles American political, economic and military systems, they soon come to find his place in realise that the baby production processPowers that Be don't play games: they make war. At least he has his drinking buddies to support him – an aging rock drummer and a friend whose wife has thrown him out for infidelity. What could possibly go wrong?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>07181794711785651757</amazonuk>

|titleauthor=Burnt Tongues: An Anthology of Transgressive Short StoriesRod Green|authortitle=Chuck Palahniuk, Dennis Widmyer Only Fools and Richard ThomasHorses: The Peckham Archives

|genre=Short StoriesEntertainment |summary=Saying certain things out loud just don’t sound rightWe are in the world of one of the country's most famous and well-loved sitcoms – even if it was sort-of killed off for Christmas 2003. Some things are so disturbing or politically incorrect that you are best off leaving them inside your headYes, there have been specials since, and more repeats to clog up the BBC schedules than is really pukka, but very few people failed to succumb to its charms at one time or better yet not thinking of them at allanother. When these words are spoken they could lead to I'm sure there have been books before now celebrating the sensation stony-faced reception of Burnt Tongue; an aftereffect of knowing what you said was wrong''that'' drop through the open bar hatch, and ''that'' chandelier scene, but this is much more meaty. Are you prepared Purporting to enter be the world of Transgressive Fiction that aims family archives, found dumped in Nelson Mandela House, the documents here were passed from pillar to disturbpost, alienatefrom one council worker in a department with a clumsy acronym to another, disgust from them to the police – and questionnow here they are being published for their social history worth. Will enough readers find them of worth, as the series quietly celebrates its 35th birthday?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178329552X1849909245</amazonuk>

|author=Sammy LookerMara Wilson|title=Something Nasty in the SlushpileWhere Am I Now?: True Stories of Girlhood and Accidental Fame|rating=45|genre=HumourAutobiography|summary=I couldn't resist Mara Wilson has always felt a little young and a little out of place: as the title - only child on a neat play on [[Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons|Cold Comfort Farm]] and I'm sure that you'll understand that I was expecting some examples film set full of adults, the horrors to be found amongst first daughter in a house full of boys, the mountain sole clinically depressed member of unsolicited manuscripts which every publisher accumulates. I'll confess I was expecting to gigglea cheerleading squad, even to groan - unkinda valley girl in New York and a neurotic in California, I know - and I'd mentally shelved an adult the book with world still remembers as a little girl. Tackling everything from how she first learned about sex on the triviaset of ''Melrose Place,'' to losing her mother at a young age, to getting her first kiss (or (hopefullywas it kisses?) on a celebrity canoe trip, to not being cute enough to make it in Hollywood, these essays tell the humour. There is that element story of one young woman's journey from accidental fame to the bookrelative obscurity, but there's also something far more useful. If illuminate a universal struggle: learning to accept yourself, and figuring out who you're thinking about publishing a book this should be required reading ''before'' are and where you even go near a publisherbelong.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>14721110280143128221</amazonuk>

|author=The QueenTony Stuart|title=Still ReigningWriting Lines|rating=4.5

|summary=Anyone who frequents Twitter will know that it's George Gordon Wentworth (1946-2011) lived a mixed blessinghumdrum life. It's He was a barely adequate teacher in a fairly world renowned independent school in Kent and kept a mine copious diary of wonderful information and supportive camaraderiehis quotidian existence. It's also - unfortunately - home to a lot Most of people who take great pleasure in causing pain to otherswhat he recorded was dross. But in However, amongst all this are a few gems the utterly uninteresting tailings of his life there were some nuggets and one grains to catch the attention. Author Tony Stuart has created these amusing anecdotes, panning them out over twenty six episodes which give us the best of them is [https://twitterWentworth – comedy gold.com/Queen_UK @Queen_UK], From losing all the pupils in his charge on a delightful satire school trip to being arrested on members suspicion of terrorism; from waking up in bed between the royal family, celebrities, married couple the political classes and the state of Her Majesty's nation. Ormorning after their wedding, to destroying a ski run; from appearing full-frontal naked in a sheep-farmers''one's nation'' as Ma'am would say. ''Still Reigning'' is her second bookgazette to triggering an air-sea rescue; Wentworth was, after ''Gin O'Clock'' blinkered and it's befuddled, the sort subject – of parody which leaves you wondering if the writer might not be someone ''very'' close to the originalthese and so many more unlikely but highly amusing events.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>07156491321524634441</amazonuk>

|author=Graham Fulbright|title=Last Days of Driving Mad: Maniacs, Morons and the Bus Advanced Motorist's Club|author=Chris Stewart|rating=43.5

|summary=I could well have been passed my driving test when John F Kennedy was in the White House and I've recently had to reapply for my driving licence having achieved a near-neighbour of Chris Stewartvenerable age. NotWhen I started driving the roads were kinder, of coursemore forgiving places - or put another way, near his current primary occupancy, an ecological farmstead just beyond the turning off from the back end of nowhere in the most rural of corners of southern Spainidiots were fewer and further between. I don't know how long Graham Fulbright has been driving, but back when he lived certainly knows his motoring morons and in the south-east ''Driving Mad'' he brings us a fictional sample of England, being Genesis' first ever drummer, and building bridges in the North Downstheir eccentricities. The fact Well, I learnt the latter from this book shows up several of the features of this warm-hearted 'traveloguem pretty certain that they' – the fact that Stewart is re fictional - but these days you never shy about portraying family details and history – given a good map and a prevailing wind one could find where he lives and descend on the farm, if one wished; and that while this might be on the travel shelves, the narrative is so fragmented it actually moves a lot more than any of the characters doknow...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>19087454361783062584</amazonuk>

|titleauthor=Summer HalfMario Giordano|authortitle=Angela ThirkellAuntie Poldi and the Sicilian Lions

|genre=HumourCrime|summary=If one didn’t know Poldi had not long been widowed when she decided to move from Bavaria to Sicily with the intention of Angela Thirkell’s distinguished background as drinking herself to death. She could, of course, have done this in Germany, but she felt that a granddaughter of Sir Edward Burne-Jones sea view was essential. Once there, new friends, family already resident on the island and daughter the corpse of a classicistyoung man, his face blown off by a shotgun, whom she found on the local beach, it would be tempting intervened to describe give her as life some meaning. For a while she was a kind of country cousin of [[:Category:P G Wodehouse|P.G. Wodehouse’s]]. An unaffected and intelligent onesuspect, whose humour is less sophisticated but bubbles over with just as much glee. The middle-class world she has created, where young men come from families that are comfortably wealthy rather than outrageously so, offers a counterpoint (and her wig) were no obstacle to her falling for Commissario Vito Montana who was assigned to investigate the Mitford case. Assisting him (or Wodehouse worlds with their aristocratic characters who travel the world having him assist her) came naturally to Poldi and before long there was an investigative and mingle with more louche, bohemian onespersonal partnership. At least so far as Poldi was concerned.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184408969X1908524693</amazonuk>

|titleauthor=The Bojeffries SagaGrady Hendrix|authortitle=Alan Moore and Steve ParkhouseMy Best Friend's Exorcism|rating=5|genre=Graphic NovelsHorror|summary=A very truncated history 1988, Charleston, South Carolina. High school sophomores Abby and Gretchen have been best friends since fourth grade. But after an evening of comics will start with the idea that they should be funny strips – one jape then youskinny-dipping goes disatrously wrong, Gretchen begins to act...different. She's moody. She's irritable. And bizarre incidents keep happening whenever she're out; then that they should have more – perhaps a superhero; then that you can have so much more than just a superhero – witness the works of [[:Category:Alan Moore|Alan Moore]]s nearby. But you mustnAbby't be too surprised s investigation leads her to see some startling discoveries - and by the whole thing come around in a full cycle. Because Alan Moore has, with this volume, concluded his own funny strip japerytime their story reaches its terrifying conclusion, the fate of Abby and whatever history or greater opinions about Gretchen will be determined by a single question: Is their friendship enough to beat the canon of comix might say, it's just about his best ever book.devil?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>08616623181594748624</amazonuk>

|author=Reverend Adam SmallboneKevin MacNeil|title=The Rev DiariesBrilliant and Forever|rating=43.5|genre=Humour|summary=Adam Smallbone wasn’t always You know sometimes when someone tells a vicar. He used to work for the Bristol Housing Departmentjoke, enabling his father-in-law to tell everyone he worked else laughs, and you'in property'. From re sat there, his initial calling wondering what was to a rural church in Suffolk which did nothing to prepare him for this, his current London inner city parish. Indeed, he's not prepared for Adoha (the Nigerian parishioner with 19 grandchildren and 'the bottom of God') or Colin, the homeless alcoholic who has adopted Adam and his wife Alex (Mrs Vicarage to Colin). But then Alex also has a lot to get used to; after all, she didn't actually marry a vicar.so funny?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>07181783941846973376</amazonuk>

|titleauthor=Look Who's BackChristopher Fowler|authortitle=Timur VermesBryant and May: Strange Tide|rating=3.5|genre=General FictionCrime|summary=''Hitler Youth Ronaldo! Which way to the street?'' With these words a The thirteenth outing for Bryant and May is looking very misguided Nazi Fuhrer asks for his first directions in the Berlin of 2011much like it will be their last. Mistakenly believing the lad to be a party junior member with his own name Arthur Bryant is on his football shirtcompassionate leave whilst tests are continuing, which are likely to confirm that he also thinks for a while it is still 1945suffering from Alzheimer's. He's soon informed of His condition is worsening almost by the truthday, but still makes some unfortunate conclusions – that the street kiosks selling Turkish language newspapers memory lapses are a sign of a Sovietmorphing into full-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 salutescale hallucinations. 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>08570529260857523422</amazonuk>

|author=Adam RuckKevin Smith|title=The Bluffer's Guide to Golf (Bluffer's Guides)Voyage of the Dolphin|rating=4.5|genre=SportHistorical Fiction|summary=The fly leaf suggests that this Bluffer's Guide is Dublin 1916: Among the way to instantly acquire all unrest and anti-British feeling worsened by the knowledge which you need threat of conscription into a war seen as nothing to pass as an expert in do with the ''arcane and labyrinthine'' world of golfIrish, Trinity College faculty has other distractions. ThereThey's quite d like a bit there that I'd agree on - trophy; the rules (and to skeleton of an unfortunate extent the Irish 'giant'attitudesto be precise. The only glitch is that the main trophy contender, Bernard MacNeill'') s skeleton, is somewhere difficult to access and all seasoned explorers are arcane and they seem to take a lifetime otherwise engaged. There may be hope though. They turn to masterFitzmaurice, but there's a surprising amount of information tucked away inside this little bookstudent not good enough for anything else. What I might quibble Fitzmaurice agrees, picking his friends Crozier and Rafferty to go with is whether or not you would him. So… ''pass as an expertGentlemen, lace up your strongest boots and pack your warmest underwear – we're all off to the bloody Arctic!' (which suggests that you're something of Whether battle cry or epitaph, three men and a con man): there's enough detail here to give you a solid grounding without needing to bluffdog… and an iguana… are going anyway.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>19093653271910124826</amazonuk>|amazonus=<amazonus>1910124826</amazonus>

|titleauthor=The Collected Works of A J FikryTony Hawks|authortitle=Gabrielle ZevinOnce Upon a Time in the West… Country|rating=43|genre=General FictionTravel|summary=A J Fikry is not having I have often complained in a good time. He's lost his wife jokey voice to a car crashmy partner about life in the sticks, 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 the way she moved me from an inner-city flat to turn a profit year-round, and he has just dismissed slumming it in the latest publisher's rep to turn up at his doorsuburbs with fewer busses, partly because her previous counterpart, an inconsequential part of A J's life when all is said no takeaways within walking-and done-keeping-food-hot distance, had died and he didnno 'Polish't know about itshops for a can of beer whenever you fancy one. But his bad time is about to get a lot worseThings are different with Tony Hawks, as the one thing here he owns worth the most has purposefully decided to up sticks from London to Somewhere, Devon – a rare booktiny village where the people who built their own homes decades ago still live in them, where slugs are a lot more valuable of a problem for the wannabe lettuce-grower than his housethey are for the metropolitan commuter, his business, anything – is about and where village halls have the power to vanish. Which bizarrely will cause several major changes to his one-person household…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408704617</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=William Hanson|title=The Bluffer's Guide to Etiquette (Bluffer's Guides)|rating=5|genre=Lifestyle|summary=If turn you ask people what they fear most in any social situation most will tell into both a Pol Pot dictator if you that it's not knowing how to behave. They'll be fine about the basicsget on their committee and into a quivering, but it's those little niceties bruise- how to introduce yourself, what to ask for as an aperitif, how to address someone, for instance which can suddenly reveal inducing wreck if you as a parvenu. William Hanson gives us a quick trip through 're the essentials in wrong gender at a book which is very readable and - in places - hilariously funny.Zumba class…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>19099370021444794809</amazonuk>

|titleauthor=Horrid Henry's Biggest and Best Ever Joke Book - 3-in-1Marian Keyes|authortitle=Francesca Simon and Tony RossMaking It Up As I Go Along

|genre=HumourEntertainment|summary=It is easy Oh, how the book reviewing gods like to see why Horrid Henry remains such an enduring give, and well-liked children’s characterequally like to take away. The adventures Here before me is a brand, spanking new collection of journalism by the wonderful Marian Keyes – but it's a proof copy, so there's no photo of the author. Even if over the years I have stopped reading her novels, I have always turned to the author picture to remind myself such sights exist in this cheekyworld. Himself is a lucky man, irreverent schoolboy and for sure. But beyond sounding like a cast letch, what can I say about this – the beauty's third large dose of extreme characters including Miss Battle Axeessays, The Demon Dinner Ladyweb columns and other journalism? I can start with agreeing that I am not the target audience, Rabid Rebecca and arch-nemesis Moody Margaret are incredibly funny and a perfect way but it's easy enough to encourage reluctant young readers to cultivate a love of readingsee from these pages exactly what the target is. It is no surprise then So much like that test you do – you know the one, that formulates decisions about the series has spawned a set age and commonality of all things in space to come up with how many billions of three spin-off joke booksplanets are likely to have alien life on – you can narrow things down quite readily here, which have now been combined to create and still come up with a single volume: ''Horrid Henry’s Biggest and Best Ever Joke Book''huge number.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>144401174X0718182529</amazonuk>

|titleauthor=Let Me Off at the Top!: My Classy Life and Other MusingsJean-Yves Ferri|authortitle=Ron BurgundyAsterix and the Missing Scroll (Album 36)|rating=45|genre=HumourFor Sharing|summary=''This book Asterix is a testament to my giant balls.'' But it's also a lot more. The story we've never been able to discern from either those rarest of the ''Anchorman'' films book series; one designed for kids which is one of surprising hardship, unsurprising hardness, and great hairactually even funnier when you are an adult. It's a rags-I used to-riches tale, love Asterix as Ron Burgundy comes from a Hicksville town in the middle of the outskirts of somewhere the arse end of nowhere (a town perpetually on fire due to the accidents in the mines underneath) and struggles against all the odds – and many of the evens in the shape of womenchild, but now that I reread them I can's legs – to get where he is todayt help but wonder why, thrusting himself and his news at us nightly.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780892241</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|title=Outraged because they are so full of Tunbridge Wells: Original Complaints from Middle England|author=Nigel Cawthorne|rating=4|genre=Humour|summary=It hilarious jokes that I definitely wouldn't have understood when I was ever thus… cyclists go too fast, without using a hooter or lights; there are hoodlums everywhere one looks, younger. I laughed loud and no public conveniences; people pretend hard 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 myself twice within the 'disgusted first two pages of Tunbridge Wells' tag, Asterix and as a book to be shelved alongside those with the wackier letters sent to the ''Daily Telegraph''Missing Scroll, these selections from the Royal townso I's press itself make d definitely say that this was a great eye-opener to the complaints and complainants of Kenthit.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>19080969181510100458</amazonuk>