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As an introduction to the disturbing world of misery, greed and advanced technology, The Church of Accelerated Redemption works well. There are some great ideas and a ton of scope for exciting stories. However, this world deserves more than any short story could provide, and you’re left wishing some of the ideas had some more time to bloom.

Here’s hoping the authors will return and realise some of the world's potential in greater depth.

Zeus Is Dead is a fun mix of mythology and modern life with some brilliantly written characters and genius ideas. The dialogue is sharp, the asides hilarious, and the fourth wall is broken so many times it needs to be taken out back and shot. If you're on board with the humour it will add up to something great and something you probably haven't seen anywhere else.

The Book of the Year is a hilarious tour of all the weird and wonderful happenings from around the world in 2017. If you're a fan of No Such Thing as a Fish or QI, consider this essential reading, but even if you're not, there are more than a few laughs to be had. You might even learn a thing or two...

A fantastic collection of children's tales that manages to teach valuable lessons about tolerance and compromise in a elegant and subtle way. Add this to your must read with my kids list.

A Man Called Ove is a wonderfully written story of grief and healing. You'll likely dislike Ove, the curmudgeonly protagonist, but as the story progresses, effortlessly weaving snapshots from the past through his present troubles, you'll come to love the miserable old sod.

Beautiful, funny and heartbreaking, A Man Called Ove is a fantastic book that will make you laugh and cry in equal measure.

Atlas Shrugged is a profoundly flawed and unpleasant story that is a bloated, preachy mess from start to finish. As an illustration, one whole 100+ page chapter later in the book is given over to a speech, which could be boiled down to one sentence: "If you're not being selfish and making as much money as possible, you are the literal devil."

Boil the book down to 300 pages, and it could have been worth a read as there are some interesting threads, but being relentlessly beaten over the head by Rand's philosophy of greed is good grows so tiresome by the baffling conclusion you'll be wishing you hadn't bothered.

So you've gone and done a Brexit: A Govern-mental booklet on surviving food shortages, making your own medicine and sacrificing loved ones. As you've probably guessed, it is a fun parody survival guide to help the readers with the horrors to come post-Brexit.

It reminded me of those fun Vault-Tec guides to the Wasteland from Fallout 4. Fun short bits of advice on topics such as disposing of a body, eating your pets and forming a militia.

If, like me, you're feeling a little down about the horrible mess our country is in, this will at least give you something to laugh about before the inevitable societal collapse. Let's be honest we all need that at the moment (The laugh, not the unavoidable societal collapse).