Writers Review

Book reviews by writers or independent booksellers, with occasional special features. We choose our own recommendations: fiction, non-fiction, memoirs, poetry, nature writing. We hope you'll enjoy our selections and keep coming back for more. Follow us on Facebook, X (Writersreview1) and Bluesky (@writersreview.bsky.social). Our new venture, Writers Review Publishing, launched in April - see website link in sidebar and Q&As with the authors.

Showing posts with label comedy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label comedy. Show all posts
Monday, 1 December 2025

Guest review by Tania Pettet: THE WOMAN WHO WENT TO BED FOR A YEAR by Sue Townsend

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  "She has always been a master of voice — from  Adrian Mole  to  The Queen and I , she writes with a kind of democratic empathy that s...
Monday, 17 March 2025

Guest review by Penny Dolan: SMALL BOMB AT DIMPERLEY by Lissa Evans

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  "A novel that cheers the heart. She writes with a wry sense of the comedy and tragedy of life ..." Penny Dolan works as a child...
Monday, 4 July 2022

Guest review by Sue Clark: REASONS TO BE CHEERFUL by Nina Stibbe

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  "Humour is as hard – some would say harder – to pin down on the page than so-called serious stuff ... That’s why, when comedy works, ...
Monday, 12 November 2018

Guest review by Graeme Fife: JITTERBUG PERFUME by Tom Robbins - an appreciation

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"He writes with the exuberance and mischief of a Lord of Misrule riding a Harley Davidson through the small towns of the Bible Belt .....
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Monday, 10 September 2018

Guest review by Anne Fine: WILD ABANDON by Joe Dunthorne

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Anne Fine writes for adults and children. She has twice won both the Carnegie Medal and the Whitbread Children’s Book Award, as we...
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