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[[Category:New Reviews|Humour]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Jean-Yves FerriDean Koontz|title= Asterix and the Missing Scroll (Album 36)The Bad Weather Friend|rating= 4.5|genre= For SharingParanormal|summary=Asterix Benny is having a terrifically bad day. He loses his job, he loses his fiancee, and his house gets trashed. Oh, and someone has delivered a really weird, disturbing coffin-sized object to his home, and it's possible that whoever or whatever was inside is those rarest of book series; one designed for kids which the thing that has trashed his house! The thing is, Benny is the very last person to deserve all this bad luck. He is actually even funnier when you are an adulta nice person. A really nice person. I used So fortunately for Benny it turns out that the delivery to love Asterix as his house is a childnew friend, but now that I reread them I can't a bad weather friend called Spike, who has been sent to help but wonder why, because they are so full of hilarious jokes that I definitely wouldn't have understood when I was youngerhim since Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for being a good person. I laughed loud and hard Spike is going to myself twice within the first two pages take care of Asterix Benny, and the Missing Scrollwill certainly take care of Benny's enemies, if he, Benny, so Iand Harper (a waitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny'd definitely say that this was a hits wild adventure) can figure out who exactly they are.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1510100458</amazonuk>1662500491

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Spadge Whittaker1529153050|title=Braver Than Britain, Occasionally's Best Political Cartoons 2022|author=Tim Benson

|summary=In Seeking some light relief from the current political turmoil which Spadge researches is coming to seem more and more like an adrenaline sport, I was nudged towards ''Britain's top ten fears and faces them all over the course Best Political Cartoons of a year. We2022''re quite a fearful society, you know. And the things Sharp eyes will have noted that we fear most are, in order: heights (acrophobia), snakes (ophidiophobia), public speaking (glossophobia), spiders (arachnophobia), small spaces (claustrophobia), mice (musophobia), needles (trypanophobia), flying (pteromerhanophobia), crowds (agoraphobia) and clowns (coulrophobia).|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0993429904</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Mike Bullen|title= Trust|rating= 4|genre= General Fiction|summary= Greg and Amanda are happy. Unmarried, but together thirteen years and with two young daughters, they are very much in love. Dan and Sarah aren't so fortunate. Their marriage is going re not yet through the motions, and they're staying together for year: the sake of their troubled teenage son. Following a business conference away cartoons run from home, one bad decision sends a happy couple into turmoil, and turns an unhappy couple into love's young dream4 September 2021 to 31 August 2022. As secrets and betrayals threaten Who can imagine what there will be to send both relationships out of control, there's only one thing that can keep everything from falling apart: Trust|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0751559253</amazonuk>come in the 2023 edition?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Dan Rhodes1785633074|title=When the Professor Got Stuck in the SnowStaggering Hubris|author=Josh Berry

|summary=MeetMembers of Parliament like us to believe that the country is run by politicians, if headed by the Prime minister - the ''primus inter pares'' (that's for those of you havenwho are Eton and Oxbridge educated) but the reality is that the 't already, 'prime'' movers are the special advisers - the SPADS - who are the phenomenon of driving force behind the Very British Problemgovernment. In this format they're We are in pithy little comments (the privileged position of having access to the memoirs ofRafe Hubris, ooh, about 140 characters in length, for some reason…) and detail the minor things in life that we like nothing more than to inflate to a major factor man who was behind the skilful control of the Covid crisis which was completely contained by the end of life2020. They can involve manners, staring at things until they mend themselves, hitting things ditto, or the fact that nobody apart from you and I You might not know how to queue properly. And if the idea hits name now but he will certainly be the world outside our shores, then – well, you certainly have a book full of content regarding our attitude and ineptitude abroadman to watch.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0751558494</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Fraser McAlpine0571365884|title=Stuff Brits LikeMy Mess is a Bit of Life: Adventures in Anxiety|author=Georgia Pritchett

|genre=HumourAutobiography|summary= With over 100 chapters on different aspects of Britain and BritishnessGeorgia Pritchett has always been anxious, this book is both fascinating and hilariouseven as a child. Just looking at She would worry about whether the list monsters under the bed were comfortable: it was the sort of subjects is enough life where if she had nothing to produce worry about she would become anxious but such occasions were few and far between. On a sardonic twist of that stiff upper lip: the chapters cover topics that range from offal visit to currya therapist, from pedantry to banteras an adult, from conkers when she was completely unable to rugby. There may be many chapters but this speak about what was wrong with her it was suggested that she should write it down and ''My Mess is no academic tome - each chapter a Bit of a Life: Adventures in Anxiety'' is just two to three pages long, each is written with endearing affection, each is easy and satisfying - and quirkily funny the result - or so we are given to readbelieve.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1857886348</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= John SamuelBoyne|title= What I Tell You in the DarkThe Echo Chamber|rating= 3.5|genre= HumourGeneral Fiction|summary=A man called Will Meet George Cleverley. He is fighting fiercely against corruption – desperate to expose self-defined as "one of the few television personalities over the age of fifty without a criminal record". He starts this book a bit worried when his companymistress tells him she's dodgy dealings to carrying his child, but then his author wife is getting her kicks with the pressUkrainian partner "Strictly Come Dancing" paired her with. Overcome They have three children, who are a sad-sack with doubt and fearabsolutely no social skills whatsoever, he goes to kill himself. Buta girl who hangs around with a virtue-signalling, at the exact moment he attaches his noose keyboard warrior "wokester" who wants to save the back world's homeless with out-of -date food, and a fit young lad doing the door, he is savedgay hustle thing. By Add in a curious housemate or a concerned girlfriend? Nofew other characters – therapists, by an Angel. Not the white-feathered guardian Angel you may expectlawyers, but one who wishes random transgender types – that all have two very different connections to help Will achieve his endslife, and so possess you have something that suggests an almost farcical approach to the body of the hapless Will in order to finish what he startedmodern world. It goes without saying that What suggests the Angel farcical approach even more, however, is hoping things go better than they did with the last guy he possessed – a hapless young man from Galilee called Jesus…fact this is bloody funny.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0715650505</amazonuk>0857526219

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= John NivenStephen Clarke|title= The Sunshine Cruise CompanySpy Who Inspired Me|rating= 4.5|genre= Humour|summary= Susan Frobisher and Julie Wickham live in a small Dorset town. Friends since school, they live fairly uneventful lives – Susan has a lovely house and a lengthy marriage to accountant Barry, whereas Julie is doing slightly less well – living in a council flat and working in an old people's home. When Barry is found dead trussed up in a sex dungeon, it transpires that he has been leading a hidden life for years, and his expensive fetishes lead to the bank moving to take Susan's home. Struck by both desperation and a sense of injustice, Sue and Julie conspire to rob a bank, taking along their friend Jill – a devout Christian conflicted due to lack of money and a terminally ill grandson, and Ethel – a foul mouthed resident of the nursing home longing for adventure.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0434023183</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Marie Phillips|title=The Table Of Less Valued Knights|rating=4.5|genre=Fantasy|summary=Sir Humphrey has been demoted from King Arthur's Round Table to the Table of Lesser Valued Knights. The only way to get his comfier seat back is to redeem himself via a quest. Therefore when damsel Elaine seeks help to find her kidnapped fiancé, Humphrey and his ward, the teenage giant Conrad, eagerly set forth. Meanwhile in the kingdom of Tuft, new Queen Martha has run away after a disastrous wedding to… a… well… disastrous Prince Edwin. She may not realise it yet, but she too will have a job for Humphrey!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099555875</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Tim Flannery|title=The Mystery of the Venus Island Fetish|rating=3|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=Meet Archie Meek. He's about to leave the Venus Islands, where he's lived for the last five years, and return to Sydney, where he'll take his office in the museum and fill it with all the cultural artefacts he's found and wildlife he's plucked or pickled. That's not to ignore the fact he'll count as something quite alien himself, with his filled-out frame, nearly all-over suntan and totemic tattoo, in amongst other changes to his body. But what's this? When he gets back, he finds one of the main Venus Islands artefacts that caused him to go there in the first place, a huge, macabre ceremonial fetish mask, purloined as corporate artwork. And some of the curators he wishes to work alongside have vanished. Is the weird society of the museum he's returning to, perchance, even weirder, stranger and more violent than the cannibalistic society he's waving farewell to?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1922079308</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Roman Dirge|title=The Cat with a Really Big Head|rating=3.5|genre=Graphic Novels|summary= How many picture books are there about cats? And how many do you know that you would really NOT prefer your children to see? If the answer to the second question is 'none – yet', scratch that last word. The title piece in this collection is, by the author's own admission, his imagining of the Joseph Merrick (the 'Elephant Man') of the feline world – who struggles to sneak up behind a mouse when the shadow of his head is a total giveaway, and who can hardly even eat with dignity as bending down to his bowl would break his neck. If that's too dark or oddball for you, try the second major piece, which has a most revealing foreword – ''Dedicated to a certain girl… I hope your life is filled with wonderful accomplishments, love and all the magic you desire… - But I hope your death is slow and horrible.''|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782762876</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Val Hennessy|title=Not Far From Dreamland|rating=4.5

|summary=Ronald Tonks has reached This is a spoof spy story, that stage in life which I call upper middle age: youisn've qualified for your pension but not yet got to the free television licence barriert about James Bond. Or Ian Fleming. What Ronald ''has'' got is But it features a roof that leaks (there's good reason why his home is man called Ian Lemming, who dresses well and 'likes the shackladies')and who works for the secret service, a dog who is going bald (in patches) and money that's but in very short supply. On the plus planning side he has friends, mostly platonic and usually in much of things more than the same boat as Ronaldactive service. But are they downhearted? Well, they are occasionallyLemming finds himself put on a mission with a female spy called Margaux, but mostly they're generously optimistic and out to make the most of what they've gotpair end up stranded in Normandy, usually bought from charity shops and jumble sales. ''Not Far From Dreamland'' is the story of with Margaux on a year (2012) desperate mission to unearth traitors in the life of Ronald Tonksresistance network, his friends and relatives.Lemming desperately trying to keep up with her!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0704373874</amazonuk>2952163855

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Harry HarrisonAfonso Cruz and Rahul Bery (translator)|title=Bill, the Galactic HeroKokoschka's Doll|rating=32.5|genre=Science Literary Fiction|summary=Meet BillWell, this looked very much like a book I could love from the get-go, which is why I picked my review copy up and flipped pages over several times before actually reading any of it. He's a simple farmer I found things to potentially delight me each time – well, he ''is'' taking a correspondence course weird section in being the middle on darker stock paper, a Technical Fertiliser Operator – but fate has something else chapter whose number was in store. And so does the mechanised20, technological000s, industrial militaryletters used as narrative form, which needs several billion grunts to fight and so on. It intrigued with the Chingers, subterranean voice a man hears in mankind's first inter-galactic war. Stillwartorn Dresden that what little I knew of it mentioned, at least he gets medals just for signing uptoo. After But you've seen the star rating that it's all downhillcomes with this review, and the likes of Petty Chief Officer Deathwish Drang can only make tell that a straight line downif love was on these pages, it was not actually caused by them. Really, So what hope is therehappened?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>147320531X</amazonuk>1529402697

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ian DoescherB08KKQ85FN|title=William Shakespeare's The Phantom of MenaceBut Never For Lunch|author=Sandra Aragona|rating=4.5|genre=HumourShort Stories|summary= Join us''If a woman approaching the menopause can be likened to a Rottweiler in lipstick, an Ambassador nearing retirement resembles a pampered peacock about to be released into the company of carrion crows or, good gentlesmore to the point, for a merry reimagining about to discover the real world of `Star Wars Episode 1bus timetables and paying his own gas bills.'' as only Shakespeare could have written it.  You don'Tis a true Shakespearean dramat get many better opening sentences than that, filled with sword fights, soliloquies do you? We first met His Excellency and doomed romance…all The Ambassador's Wife in glorious iambic pentameter [[Sorting the Priorities: Ambassadress and Beagle Survive Diplomacy by Sandra Aragona|Sorting the Priorities]] and we learned what it was like to be moved around countries like accompanying baggage by the Italian Government but the time has come for HE to retires and coupled with gorgeous illustrationsfor Sandra Aragona to become The Wife of Former Ambassador. Hold on to your midichlorians: .. They have left The plays Career and settled in Rome. Well 'settled' rather overstates the thingsituation and their dog, wherein you'll catch the rise Beagle, has no intention of Anakin!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1594748063</amazonuk>slowing down any time soon, despite being sixteen and deaf.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=AttaboyB08GFSK2WZ|title=The Book of HugsKarma Trap|author=Lisette Boyd

|genre=HumourWomen's Fiction|summary=A hugGeorge Jackson is thirty-three years old, absolutely gorgeous to look at - and single. She's not had sex for eight months and she's stuck in the karma trap: an awful lot of bad luck is being visited on her and she has a hug, OK? real talent for attracting drama. You either do, or you donHer life't. Some people might be a little more enthusiastic about s chaotic: she dealt with the leak from the shower by putting something down at the bottom of the stairs to absorb the water - then the shower fell through the process roof whilst others are more elegant she was in it and left her, stark naked, staring at the execution of pervy postman. She only has to take her mother's dog 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 hugoffice.}} {{Frontpage|author=David C Mason|title=Pandora's Gardener|rating=3|genre=Crime|summary= John Cranston is a gardener, although what he did before he became a gardener, but basically you he claims, is classified. That is just get on and do it and then forget as well because he is about itto be caught up in a criminal / spy / terrorist plot, right?where only he can save the day. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0867197978</amazonuk>0956180523

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Christopher FowlerJester_Forever|title= Bryant and May – The Burning ManForever After: a dark comedy|author=David Jester

|genre=CrimeHorror|summary= The Peculiar Crimes Unit (PCU) has Michael Holland is a new set of overlords. For reasons that were explored in cocky and brash young man who dies and gets made the previous couple offer of outings they have been transferred to the City Of London Police. The Met are still the big players in the areahis lifetime; immortality. City of London Police only police the old cityWe follow Michael, the square milea grim reaper and his friends, the financial district in other words, that has very little Chip (a stoner tooth fairy) and Naff (a stoner in the way of street crime, because no-one records department) as they grapple with their long lives there anymore and the people who work there are, by and large, either too rich to need to steal, or too smart to have finding a clean surface to do so sit on the streetsin their flat.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857522043</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Catharina Ingelman-Sundberg1683691172|title=The Little Old Lady Who Struck Lucky Again! William Shakespeare's Much Ado About Mean Girls|author=Ian Doescher|rating=32.5

|summary=Following A long time ago, in a galaxy far away, all the success of ''The Little Old Lady Who Broke All the Rules''Star Wars films were crunched up against Shakespeare, and the League of Pensioners are back marriage seemed a perfectly suitable one. So much so – so easily did the plots and this timecharacters converse in Shakespearean dialogue, and behave with Shakespearean stage directions – that the producers tried again, they’re in Vegaswith [[William Shakespeare's Get Thee Back to the Future! by Ian Doescher|Back to the Future]] no less. And that worked. But simultaneously they put a real test out. A film I haven’t read can't even really remember seeing was transcribed into the first book but it original Elizabethan lingo. A cult following I had never followed whatsoever was on my list when given the opportunity arose to review this onebrand new, yet oh so ancient, dressing. The idea of Here was the League of Pensioners marching towards a fairer world through fun and frolics was hugely appealing true challenge – would I manage to me and enjoy this is a stand alone novel so I thought I would dive straight in with this one.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447274903</amazonuk>, based on little foreknowledge? Oh damn those shiny gold stars for letting the game away…

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Winshluss168369094X|title=In God We TrustWilliam Shakespeare's Get Thee Back to the Future!|author=Ian Doescher

|genre=Graphic NovelsHumour|summary=To start withA long time ago, in a publishing house far away, [[:Category:Ian Doescher|someone]] thought it wonderfully wacky to rewrite the story of Star Wars in Shakespearean pentameter, colliding two entirely different genres and styles in such a rhetorical testclever way they seemed perfectly suited. How about God and Adam playing badminton day It was then duly repeated for all the other films in the main Star Wars cycle, and day outclearly someone's buffing their quills ready for Episode Nine, until one gets bored and decides to create Eve? Or the defeater title of Goliath and which became public knowledge the saviour of day before I write. In the Israelites being one Conan hiatus, however, the Barbarian? Or this as a test – Jesus Himself failing to have a successful session of tequila slammers with Gabriel due effort has been made to see if the holes through His hands? I barely need mention that in these pages God does battle same shtick works with Supermanother texts, for you and to riff on other seemingly unlikely source materials in iambs. And could we have answered anything more suitably unsuitable-seeming than Back to the test and put yourself firmly in one Future, with its tales of two camps for this book – one very much opposed to buying ittime travel, bullying, and one very much in favour.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0861662350<parent/amazonuk>child strife like no other?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=David Walliams and Tony Ross1473669065|title=The QueenQueenie Malone's Orang-UtanParadise Hotel|author=Ruth Hogan

|genre=For SharingHumour|summary=The Queen felt trapped in Tilda returns to Brighton, to tidy away the palace with all those stuffed animals which remains of her mother's life after her death. Whilst there, she has been given on foreign toursreturns to the Paradise hotel, a haven for eccentrics and misfits. There are mountains A place where people can be themselves, and let go of thoughts that torment them and every night she would dream of escapingelsewhere. When Little wonder that Tilda cannot forgive her birthday drew near the family dutifully asked mother for banishing her what she would like as a presentchild, from this place of wonder. The Prince was thinking With the help of a goldQueenie Malone, caring, diamond encrusted stairlift whilst the Duke was considering a great big bottle of brandy. The Royal Baby had some decorated thimbles in mindand gregarious, but Tilda begins to pick apart the Queen became just a little snappish as tricky and uncertain relationship she explained that what she really wanted was 'One's own orang-utan'had with her sometimes cruel and distant mother. And she didn't mean a stuffed one, either.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0008135134</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jack Sheffield1683690346|title=Silent Night|rating=3.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=I read a couple of Jack Sheffield’s books about five years ago, and enjoyed them very much. They were written in a similar style to those popularised by, for instance, James Herriot or [[:Category:Gervase Phinn|Gervase Phinn]], told mostly in the first person, describing the author’s first couple of years as Headmaster at a small village primary school in Yorkshire. The village of Ragley is fictional, as are most of the characters, but the incidents and situations encountered are based on the author’s experience.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0552167045</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewCon Artist|author=J Robert Lennon|title=See You In Paradise|rating=3|genre=Short Stories|summary=Lennon writes with a relaxed, easy style and his characters are instantly recognisable as people from everyday walks of life, without being in any way stereotypical. Many of the people in these stories are dealing with normal frustrations, and Lennon is cleverly detached enough not to make them individuals that you're obviously supposed to root for (the only exception is the industrialist in the eponymous tale, who is an archetypal capitalist fat cat). There are some very clever characterisations – in ''Weber’s Head'', for example, the narrator is a flawed individual whose opinions of his housemate are gradually revealed to be unreliable and unfair. For me, the most unsettling story is ''No Life'', because it portrays a decent couple at the mercy of people more powerful and influential than them. There is no supernatural or bizarre element at work here, just ordinary characters at the mercy of social power.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781253358</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Lynne Truss|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 the true evil in this story lies…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099585340</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Jimmy Hansen and Mychailo Kazybird|title=Wallace & Gromit : The Complete Newspaper Strips Collection Vol 2Fred Van Lente

|summary=For me there Comic-Cons are two important areas a place of the cover of this wonder and sanctuary for many people, and when Comic book where three letters are arranged in meaningful ways. The first is with the Sartist Mike Mason arrives at San Diego Comic-U-N in their obligatory red Con, he's looking for both that and white font. No minor paper could hold Wallace sanctuary with other fans and Gromitcreators, their adventures have to be in what is (unfortunately) plus the most widely read tabloid in the countrychance of maybe, just maybe reuniting with his ex. And elsewhere However, when his rival is C-B-Efound dead, suggesting that even Mike is forced to navigate every dark corner of the storytellers at Aardman Animations who are not household names are feted con in order to clear his name – from cosplay flash mobs and revered as artistic experts, raising many laughs intrusive fans to zombie obstacle courses – Mike must prove his innocence and much money for the country courtesy of their creative output. Together these short collections of letters show just how much WaG are major creations, and if the proof was needed this much longer collection of their daily comic strips provides it in spadesdoing so, may just unravel a dark secret behind a legendary industry creator.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782760822</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|title=Dear Committee Members|author=Julie Schumacher|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction|summaryisbn=Jason Fitger (Jay) is a Professor of creative writing 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>}}{{newreview1473669588|title=Mapp and Lucia OmnibusFalling Short|author=E F BensonLex Coulton|rating=3.54

|summary=Miss Elizabeth Mapp rules the town of Tilling - she Lex Coulton's debut novel is the centre of the social lifea story about mistakes, and spends her days enjoying bridgefailures, polite conversation and civilised paintingrelationships. When Mrs Emmeline Lucas arrives in town (known to all as Lucia)The main protagonist, Miss Mapp finds her life truly shaken upFrances Pilgrim, as the cultured, fashionable and progressive Lucia makes is a sixth form English teacher who has recently fallen out with her home in the townbest friend Jackson, a work colleague and swiftly rises to is grappling with the top increasingly eccentric behaviour of her mother. This relationship is complicated by the ranks amongst the social scene in Tillingfact that Frances's father disappeared at sea when she was five years old.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849908478</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1683690133|title=Encyclopedia ParanoiacaMy Lady's Choosing|author=Henry Beard Kitty Curran and Christopher CerfLarissa Zageris

|summary=The late Joan Rivers wasYou are a lass of twenty-eight. Plucky, penniless and in Regency-era London the race is on to find a suitable suitor - or else doom yourself to life as an eternal spinster. Along your journey, without you'll be accompanied by Lady Evangeline Youngblood - a fiesty noble eager to save you from a doubtlife alone, and fired by a characterrogueish sense for adventure. ActressWhen it comes to suitors though, comedianyou'll have to make the ultimate decision between witty, writerpretty and wealthy Sir Benedict Granville, directorwholesome, presenterrugged and caring Captain Angus MacTaggart, she was well known in or the USA mad, bad and beyond for her sharp tongue terrifyingly sexy Lord Garraway Craven. With orphans, werewolves, long lost lovers and no holds barred persona. This was the last of ancient Egyptian artefacts along the dozen books she publishedway, her final title before her death in September 2014it's clear this isn't going to be an easy decision...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0425269027</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|title=The Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy - The Nearly Definitive Edition|author=Douglas Adams|rating=5|genreisbn=General Fiction|summary=There are few series that have garnered such a cult following as 'The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy'. Whether the fans have come from the radio series, the (impossibly hard) computer game, or the (well intentioned but not particularly good) film, they are everywhere. Ask a room of people what the meaning of life is, and you can be pretty sure a good few will pipe up with '42' as the answer.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0434023396</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewStibbe_Xmas|title=Quick Pint After WorkAn Almost Perfect Christmas|author=Luke LewisNina Stibbe|rating=4.5

|summary=BuzzFeed is one Christmas – the time of traditional trauma. You only have to think about the world’s best turkey for that – once upon a time sucksit was leaving it sat on the downstairs loo to defrost overnight, and I’m regularly directed if that failed the hair-dryer shoved inside it treatment was your next best bet. Nowadays it's all having to the site by links from Facebook make sure it's suitably free-range and organic – but not too organic that you can go and Twittervisit it, in between browsing the app on my phoneand get too friendly with it to want to eat it. According to the author bio on this bookChristmas, though, BuzzFeed is of course also a time of great boons. It's cash in hand for a social news lot of plump people who can hire red suits and entertainment company'beards, which is it was always a fancy way of describing lots of fun lists that speak godsend for postmen with all the thank-you letters to the readership (20 words aunties you saw twice a decade that have a completely different meaning your parents made you write out in Manchester, 30 Things all exlong-gymnasts know to be true, 40 Very British problems, yadda yadda yadda). These list work well on line when you want hand as a quick distractionchild, and they’re easy to flip through, looking at as for the attached photos or video clips. The question thenmakers of Meltis Newberry Fruits – well, is whether or not BuzzFeed did they even try and sell them any other time of the book will have the same appeal.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0751557730</amazonuk>year?

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

|summary=Following inadvertent success with the Wife ProjectA long time ago, in a galaxy far away, there was a man called William Shakespeare, Professor Don Tillman and his new bride Rosie have moved from Australia who was able to New York. Although Don's position on the autistic scale is subjective, he still operates on create a daily basis series of structured proceduresdramatic histories full of machinations most foul, lists rulers most evil and rebellious heroes and logicheroines most sturdy. Rosie can generally handle that but there are choppy waters ahead. With You may or may not have noticed the patter cinematic version of tiny feet imminent logic goes out his original stage play for ''The Force Doth Awaken'', but here at last we get the window as she struggles actual script, complete with her PhD while Don struggles annoying-in-different-ways-to find -before droids anew, returning heroes from elsewhere in his place oeuvre, and people keeping it in the baby production processfamily til it hurts. At least he has And if you need further encouragement, don't forget his drinking buddies audience only demanded three parts of Henry VI – here the series is so popular we're on to support him part seven – an aging rock drummer and a friend whose wife has thrown him out for infidelity. What could possibly go wrong?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0718179471</amazonuk>surely making this over twice as good…