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Advantages: Usual tom Sharpe Hilarity
Disadvantages: None

...of fancy, this time concerning the world of publishing. The unlikely premise is that an author has a manuscript that he wants published yet, for reasons that may become clear, cannot allow his own name to be associated with it. The hard-bitten literary agent involved comes up with a solution that pleases everyone. There is a hopeless writer on his books who would do almost anything to get his name on the cover of a book and a deal is soon struck. ...
...Sharpe style, and the real author remains in obscurity whilst the imposter embarks on a book promotion tour of the USA, with about as many misunderstandings, awkward situations and disasters is any sane person could possibly imagine. The core action takes place in the deep south Bible belt where the bizarre and unbelievable is commonplace. It involves religious fanaticism, venomous snakes, corporate greed, lust and a generous sprinkling of naivety ... Read review

Advantages: Characters now have form!
Disadvantages: Over a bit too quickly

PLOT = On the Discworld, which lies on the backs of four elephants carried through space on a giant space turtle called A’Tuin, there is a high mountain and on the top is Dunmanifestin, where some of the gods of the Discworld take their time to play with the lives of man, and right now they are involved in game that could affect the lives of all on the Discworld. Cohen is a legend, who remembers high adventure and when you weren’t told off ...
...are going to return what the first hero stole, with a vengeance. Only this could mean the end of the world if no one stops them in time… When the news of this quest reaches Ankh-Morpork, the Patrician, Lord Vetinari, consults the Wizards of the Unseen University, to ask whether it was possible to send someone to the mountain before Cohen and his horde reach the gods and persuade them to turn back, unfortunately there is no way of using magic to ... Read review

Advantages: Hilarious Black comedy, right up there with the best of Sharpe
Disadvantages: Had to put it down and go to work

...when he finds out that the spoon has been pawned. He is accepted with open arms as a Lloyds name and is only brought to heel when he is asked to repay some major sums to that august body. In true Tom Sharpe style there follows a drug fuelled motorbike ride through unfamiliar countryside, ending up in bed with the wrong woman, in the kind of implausible yet highly credible kind of story line that only Tom Sharpe can pull off. As with any book review ...
...I have read all of the Tom Sharpe books. A few, such as Porterhouse Blue, Wilt and Blott on the Landscape have made it onto the small screen, to great acclaim, and including such stars as Griff Reese Jones, David Suchet and Geraldine James. it is a shame that more can't be filmed but the content may not sit well with a family audience. In my experience, the book is always better than a film or TV adaptation so five yourself a treat and read The Midden, ... Read review

Advantages: Exclusive Content, Excellent Images, Engrosing Read
Disadvantages: Just A Tad Pricey

The Discworld Series by Terry Pratchett spans some 35 novels, short stories, maps, comics, 'diaries' picture books, The Science Of Discworld I, II and III. The series is extremely sucsesful, major fans, like myself, begin to picture it all, even when we wern't reading, so someone had to draw the pictures, cue The Art Of Discworld. Josh Kirby originally created the cover art for the Discworld Books, but in October of 2001, he passed away in his sleep. ...
...the book. The Art Of Discworld, which was released in 2004, is a collection of Discworld art which goes beyond the covers of the books. The book itself is rather amazingly compiled, anybody who reads the book 'for the pictures' is satisfied with some gobsmackingly detailed work. For die hard fans, you are greated with Terry's comments on the pictures, and a sense of pride the the images are 'exactly as you imagined the characters to look like'. ... Read review

Advantages: Twisted, Grusome and Warped
Disadvantages: Not For Kids Really

(Sorry but the title is wrong the name of the Book is The Boy Who Kicked Pigs, but enough of that gotta review to write.) Tom Baker was the ultimate Dr Who; in-fact after he left it went downhill totally. Also worth a mention is that he married Lalla Ward, which is totally not fair, she should have saved herself for me. Anyway onto this book, the plot is quite simple; 13-year-old Robert Caligari is like most 13 year old boys thoroughly evil. Robert ...
...after which he comes to the conclusion that it is the whole Human Race that he despises. He sees himself as a champion of all the animals that the Human Race hates Rats, spiders, snakes and sharks. This leads him down a very dangerous path and towards an exceedingly gruesome end. The book was written as a children’s book, but there is enough meat in it to engross an adult reader. It is filled full of observations on normal everyday life and advice ... Read review