Category: Comedy
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Spark by Naoki Matayoshi – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB Tokunaga is a young comedian struggling to make a name for himself in Osaka, when he is taken under the wing of the more experienced, but no more famous, Kamiya. But as much as Kamiya’s indestructible confidence inspires him, it also makes him doubt the limits of his own talent, and his own…
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The Purple-Bellied Parrot by William Fagus – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB Discover … The power of the ‘HhhuuuUUTTT! ’Ever feel you are living the wrong life? Ever feel another life, your should-be life, is out there waiting for you, if only you had the courage to …Do you like tinned pineapple chunks? Have you answered yes to any of those questions? Then follow the…
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Merde And Mandarins (Kind Hearts And Martinets #5) by Pete Adams – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB A Defence Secretary shooting. The collapse of the Home Office Secretary. London’s high-ranking civil servants are being targeted, and DCI Jack Austin is drawn out of retirement. When his wife is kidnapped, inept savant DCI Austin leads the rescue mission while trying to solve the recent mystery, and discover the motives of the…
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Doing Time (The Time Police) by Jodi Taylor – Book Review. @joditaylorbooks @headlinepg @annecater #RandomThingsTours #DoingTime
PUBLISHERS BLURB Published in Hardback by Headline 17/10/19, £18.99 Introducing The Time Police, the brand-new series by international bestselling author, Jodi Taylor – an irresistible spinoff from the much-loved Chronicles of St Mary’s series. Perfect reading for fans of Doctor Who, Ben Aaronovitch and Jasper Fforde. A long time ago in the future, the secret…
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Effin Birds by Aaron Reynolds – Book Review. @aaronreynolds @EffinBirds @unbounders @annecater #EffinBirds
PUBLISHERS BLURB Have you ever looked a bird dead in the eye and wondered what its thinking? With Effin Birds, the most eagerly anticipated new volume in the nobel avocation of bird identification, you can venture into nature with confidence. This farcical field guide will help you identify over 200 birds, but most importantly, for…
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Ghost and Ragman Roll by Pete Adams – Book Review. @Peteadams8 @NextChapterPB @damppebbles #GhostAndRagmanRoll
PUBLISHERS BLURB His French honeymoon continually interrupted by a series of misdeeds, DCI Jack Austin returns to Portsmouth to find the missing link. When an ambitious new detective infringes on his territory – and his ego – Austin resorts to illogically effective tactics to protect those that matter most. With a corpulent gangster gone missing…
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XYZ by William Knight – Book Review. @_William_Knight #XYZ #LoveBooksTours
PUBLISHERS BLURB From a former Guardian and BBC writer, and author of The Donated, comes a hilarious story of mid-life crisis, family, technology, and coping with the modern workplace. Jack Cooper is a depressed, analogue throwback; a cynical, alcoholic Gen-Xer whose glory days are behind him. He’s unemployed, his marriage has broken down, he’s addicted…
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Dead Clown Blues by R. Daniel Lester – Book Review. @RDanielLester @ShotgunHoney #DeadClownBlues
PUBLISHERS BLURB Carnegie Fitch, once-upon-a-time drifter and now half-assed private eye, has a sharp tongue, a cheap suit and dog-bite marks on his fedora. Yes, that’s just how he rolls through the downtown streets of Vancouver, BC, Canada, aka Terminal City, circa 1957, a land of neon signs, 24-hour diners and slumming socialites. Fitch gets…
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The Introvert Confounds Innocence by Michael Paul Michaud – Book Review. @MichaelPMichaud @BOTBSPublicity #TheIntrovertConfoundsInnocence
PUBLISHERS BLURB THE INTROVERT CONFOUNDS INNOCENCE continues the story of the eponymous anti-hero introduced in THE INTROVERT. With his life disrupted by an unscrupulous work colleague and a bully at his son Toby’s school, things go from bad to worse when his neighbor’s abusive boyfriend goes missing, plunging the introvert into the center of a…
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#Sonnets by Lucien Young – Book Review. @LucienDYoung @unbounders @annecater #Sonnets
PUBLISHERS BLURB ‘I thought I could, with verse iambic, pry Some sense from nonsense, and our modern scene Depict and mock, while using “thee” and “thy” In pages fit to rest by thy latrine.’ Shakespeare’s sonnets are among the great achievements in world literature. Alas, the immortal Bard never used his command of iambic…
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Barnabas Tew and The Case Of The Enlightened Cow by Columbkill Noonan – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB Barnabas Tew and the Case of the Enlightened Cow Rama, the Hindu god who maintains dharma, or the balance of all things, is in terrible trouble, and only Barnabas and Wilfred can save him! Private detectives to the gods, Barnabas Tew and Wilfred Colby, believed they’d discovered the secret to taking charge of their…
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Base Cowboys by Mark Farrer – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB BASE COWBOYS is a comic crime trilogy set in the Scottish Borders. It is the sixth laugh-out-loud book in the CULLEN series written by Borders author Mark Farrer and will appeal to readers of Christopher Brookmyre, Carl Hiaasen, Nick Spalding or Tom Sharpe. The book tells the stories of three amoral ne’er-do-wells, their…
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