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76121 PURPLE RONNIE’S TOTALLY BRILLIANT


DOODLE BOOK by Purple Ronnie With his stick men characters, wobbly bits, frilly knickers, accidents, dancing, nights out, nights in by the sofa, add your own words to what grandma is saying, what’s in mum’s shopping bags?, what’s on


top chefs menu tonight?, design a t-shirt, add your own favourite poetry to the speech bubbles and draw your own morning-after face in the mirror in this fabulous doodle book full of bits of Purple Ronnie’s drawings and poems to finish off for yourself! May be a little rude! Large page softback, line art. £7.99 NOW £2.50


HOW TO…


It is never too late to be what you might have been.


- George Eliot


76572 HOW TO DRAW CARTOONS AND CARICATURES by Mark Linley


Buzzards, doggies, images from a photograph, choosing a good victim you spot outdoors, Prince Charles’s famous ears, mouths made bigger, different ways to depict hair, adding a face to a hairstyle, nose, eyes and brows, here is a step-by-step guide to cartooning, spotting characters


and making up conversations. First of all capture the character of your ‘victim’, use swift strokes to create a face that has instant appeal, exaggerate the features to make a comical caricature and brighten up someone’s day with your own tiny bit of cartoon magic. The author has infectious enthusiasm and passion for drawing to inspire you in his well illustrated paperback. 256pp. £6.99 NOW £3.50


75884 WHO DO YOU THINK YOU ARE? A FAMILY HISTORY


Designed to keep forever a record of your family history, with its padded cover, huge pages to fill in and lovely big clear design, this is a book which gives useful hints about how to go about your research. With big oval spaces to insert family photographs, quotations and woodcuts throughout, it covers husband’s genealogy, wife, children and grandchildren, ancestral charts, weddings, religious ceremonies, education, home, vehicles, pets, events to remember, reunions, family holidays, illnesses, clubs and organisations, friends, hobbies, sports and collections. 126 very large pages.


ONLY £3.50


74460 MRS DOLBY’S MEMORY MAGIC by Karen Dolby


Language, spelling, general knowledge, history, maths, science, sport, geography, astronomy - absolutely anything - Karen shows us a variety of proven techniques so you can discover which one works for you. Here are techniques employed by memory experts, how actors remember their lines, the actual electro- mechanics of how the brain stores memories. Here are many much cherished mnemonics and rhymes and great many more that were new to us. Illus. 273pp. £9.99 NOW £2


75617 YOUR CASE IS HOPELESS: Bracing Advice from The Boy’s Own Paper edited by Karl Sabbagh


Where did the Victorian schoolboy go for answers to his embarrassing health problems? The answer is The Boy’s Own Paper. How can you cure a stammer? Sick rabbit/ parrot/squirrel? This immensely entertaining selection of answers to problems published in the BOP between 1879 and 1900 provides a unique glimpse into the minds of Victorian schoolboys, and the brisk, occasionally cruel but ever-amusing way in which the editor’s advice is dispensed tells us yet more about the era. 288pp, illus. £12.99 NOW £3.50


HUMOUR


For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.


- Ralph Waldo Emerson


76728 SAUCY POSTCARDS: The


Bamforth Collection by Marcus Hearn Nudist Camps, Window Cleaners, Doctors, Nurses and Patients, Just Married, along with Sea and Sand, A Bit of Slap and Tickle, The Permissive Society was


acknowledged by Bamforth on even the tamest seaside postcard. Arnold Taylor had a charming line in canoodling couples during this era. One of his designs features a girl in a polka dot swimsuit, posing with a


gentleman friend on the beach. In 1952, the girl remembering mother’s good advice gave way to the blonde bombshell with huge boobies who was interrupted while cuddling her boyfriend on the living room sofa. By the late 1960s there were fewer coy lovers on park benches and rather more references to randy students, and the impracticalities of getting your leg over in a Mini. Jokes would become increasingly explicit until innuendo, the fine art that once defined the saucy postcard, seemed redundant. And they certainly get hotter and naughtier as you go through this marvellous brightly coloured collection, 224pp with one or two cartoons per page plus a history of the Bamforth Company which was established in 1870 as a photographic studio. 300 examples in full colour, very much from their time, of these risqué postcards celebrating 100 years of British humour. £12.99 NOW £5


76279 WRINKLIES’ WIT AND WISDOM FOREVER! Humorous Quotes About Getting On A Bit by Allison


Vale and Alison Rattle Studies among indigenous tribes have proved that the presence of a grandmother within the family unit will greatly improve the survival rates of any children. This gives the human race an advantage over all


other species, because improved survival rates lead to greater longevity. Life for the over 50s has never been better. Our healthier lifestyles have set the signs of ageing back at least a decade. This compilation celebrates the geniuses and giants of our time, the kind of professional entertainers who can still pull together three generations of a family round the TV and guarantee that everyone is laughing. The wrinkly years are now to be welcomed and enjoyed so forget a quiet, dignified old age, and party on in the company of the likes of Woody Allen, John Cleese, Julie Walters, Whoopi Goldberg, Victoria Wood, and many, many more. 256 pages of merriment. £9.99 NOW £4


76342 MAMMOTH BOOK OF IRISH HUMOR


edited by Aubrey Malone The Irish G-spot is guilt. Foreplay, in Ireland, is the technical term for taking your socks off. ‘A good way to write a novel is to go into a pub, sit down and listen’ says Maeve Binchy. ‘Life is a sexually transmitted disease’ said Brian Moore. Life and Death, Fish, Doctors, Christmas, Children,


Airlines, Appearance, Breasts, Chat-Up Lines, Bertieisms, The Bible, Tight-Fistedness, Trousers to Viagra, here is an A-Z of thousands of quips, quotes and jokes. 512pp in paperback. £7.99 NOW £3.50


74667 EVERYDAY DRINKING: The Distilled Kingsley Amis


edited by Christopher Hitchens Comprises three out-of-print works on the art and practice of imbibing: Kingsley Amis On Drink, Every Day Drinking and How’s Your Glass. Here, mixing practical know-how with hilarious, opinionated statements is a moreish cocktail of wry humour by one of Britain’s gimlet wits. It comprises a series of well- tested recipes, including a cocktail called The Lucky Jim, musings on The Hangover, The Boozing Man’s Diet, the Mean Sod’s Guide and How Not To Get Drunk. Plus fun quizzes. 302 pages. $19.99 NOW £3


76071 CONFESSIONS OF A MALE NURSE


by Michael Alexander ‘It isn’t just about giving you your medicines and dressing your wounds. I’m here to explain things, including the foreign language the doctor’s use. I’m here to help you in and out of bed, to help you help yourself.’ From stampeding nudes to inebriated teenagers, Michael Alexander never knew what he was


getting himself into, but now 16 years in the nursing profession, as the only man in a gynaecology ward, he has pretty much dealt with everything - body parts that came off in his hands, teenagers with phantom pregnancies, doctors unable to tell the difference between their left and right, violent drunks, singing relatives, sexism and more nudity than the sex industry. A touching and frequently hilarious memoir. 318pp in paperback.


£6.99 NOW £3.50


74708 HUMORISTS: From Hogarth to Noël Coward


The Grand Old Master of Chaos, Hogarth, Dr Johnson’s Melancholy Merriment, Bottoms Up with Thomas Rowlandson, Nothing So Odd As Life with Dickens, Master-Monster Toulouse-Lautrec, A Living, Talking Gargoyle that was G. K. Chesterton, the Dong with the Luminous Nose, W. C. Fields, Supple, Subtle and Sentimental Charlie Chaplin, the Era of Good Feeling with Laurel and Hardy, The Marx Brothers, James Thurber, Noël Coward and Nancy Mitford are the subjects of these insightful biographical portraits. It is a diverse cast of legendary funny men (and women) and features their darkest humour, broadest satire, bawdiest wit, most biting sarcasm. 288pp, paperback. £9.99 NOW £2.25


76000 MAMMOTH BOOK OF INSULTS


edited by Geoff Tibballs Never be stuck for a wicked line again. Here are over 5000 comebacks, put downs, snaps, insults, un-admiring quips and quotes for every possible occasion from street talk to literary, playground insults to marriage jibes. Is there no beginning to your talents? You’d be out of your depth in a puddle! 518pp, paperback. £7.99 NOW £4


76387 BIG NEW YORKER BOOK OF DOGS


by Malcolm Gladwell The New Yorker magazine began publishing in 1925 and has never lost its original flair. This, of course, is mostly due to the quality of the artists and writers who have contributed to it over the years. Here, an incredible roster of talent has been gathered together to


celebrate man’s best friend. Famous names such as Arthur Miller, Ogden Nash, Roald Dahl, Roddy Doyle, John Updike, James Thurber and a host more bring their wit and wisdom to bear to create an unforgettable collection of one-liners, short stories, essays and jokes which you will be able to browse happily for years to come. Here are Good Dogs, Bad Dogs, Top Dogs, Underdogs and even a new essay by Adam Gopnik on the immortal canines of James Thurber. Our favourite is the sign at the entrance to a beer garden on the Rhine: ‘Das Mitbringen von Hunden ist Polizeilich Verboten’ - or ‘The Withbringing of Dogs is Police-Wise Forbidden’, but we also love one dog saying to another: ‘On the Internet, nobody knows you’re a dog!’ How true. 395 fun-filled pages packed with cartoons, line drawings, colour photos, covers, and list of contributors.


£30 NOW £15 74927 42: Deep Thought on Life, The


Universe, and Everything by Mark Vernon In ‘The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy’, the supercomputer Deep Thought pronounces 42 as the answer to life, the Universe and everything. Drawing his inspiration from 42 of the funniest, wisest and quirkiest quotations on the big questions in life, Mark Vernon offers a light-hearted look at what philosophy has to say and deftly interweaves the greatest minds of all time from Socrates to Monty Python. His profound discussions cover work, love, eternal life, sex and happiness, the allure of cats, the nature of wisdom, technology, the soul, money, food, ignorance and bliss. 177pp in paperback. £9.99 NOW £2.50


75610 TOTTERING LIFE: Tottering-By-Gently by Annie Tempest


For more than 20 years, Annie Tempest has been charting the life of Daffy and Dicky Tottering in Tottering-by-Gently, the phenomenally successful weekly strip carton in Country Life magazine. The pair live in the fading grandeur of Tottering Hall, their stately home in the fictional county of North Pimmshire, with their extended family: daughter Serena and grandchildren Freddy and Daisy plus ‘the daily’ Mrs Shagpile, and the love of Dicky’s life - Slobber, his black Labrador. Offers differing perspectives on dieting, ageing, gardening, fashion, food, field sports, convention and more. 112 pages 28cm x 22cm, with pen and watercolour illus.


ONLY £6.50 75701 IF YOU CAN’T SAY ANYTHING NICE,


SAY IT IN YIDDISH by Lita Epstein Shmuck! Putz! Mamzer! Here is a book of Yiddish insults and curses like ‘May your soul enter a cat and may a dog bite it!’ Yiddish is the most colourful language in the history of mankind and has a whole dictionary of its own to tell someone to drop dead! A plague on you and hundreds more perfect insults for every occasion from the short and sweet together with curses for the putzes and kvetchers of the world together with the fascinating origins and much Jewish wisdom. For Jews and Gentiles alike with a Yiddish glossary. 188pp in paperback.


£8.99 NOW £3.50


75705 MORE ONE LINERS, JOKES AND GAGS by Grant Tucker


People always say I’m really dishy. I have a very round face. I tried tap dancing once, but I broke my ankle when I fell into the sink. What did the picture say to the wall? I’ve been framed. What does a perverted frog say? Rubbit. Another hilarious volume of the finest quips, zingers, puns and wise cracks from twists on the classics to modern greats and x-rated gags, from jokes you could tell your mother to something wickedly clever for everyone. 331pp in paperback. £9.99 NOW £4


75214 EASY AS PI: The Countless Ways We


Use Numbers Every Day by Jamie Buchan Zooming from zero to infinity via Amazonian tribes, drug culture and nuclear paranoia, The author investigates the derivation of numerical expressions and their inescapable influence on our culture, from alarm clocks to cell phones. En route, he skilfully answers such puzzling questions as: What makes ‘cloud nine’ and ‘seventh heaven’ so blissful? Why is number 7 so lucky and number 13 so unlucky? Is ‘fourth- dimensional thinking’ really out of this world? 174 pages, line drawings and glossary of mathematical terms. $14.95 NOW £2.75


75512 AVERAGE LIFE OF THE AVERAGE PERSON: How It All Adds Up by Tadg Farrington


This endlessly diverting almanac, covering a miscellany of 100 statistics - both material and intangible - approaches the everyday from a surprising angle. In the 21st century, a human lifespan is, on average, a


Humour LITERATURE


It has been well said that an author who expects results from a first novel is in a position similar to that of a man who drops a rose petal down the Grand Canyon of Arizona and listens for the echo.


- P. G. Wodehouse, Cocktail Time


76538 A PEAK DISTRICT ANTHOLOGY: A Literary Companion to Britain’s First


National Park by Roly Smith For many years, literary visitors to the Peak District have been astonished by its sublime wonders and have felt moved to write about it. Lord Byron wrote ‘Was you ever in Dovedale? I assure you there are things in Derbyshire as


noble as in Greece or Switzerland’. The flowering of guidebook writing in the 20th century added to the Peak’s outdoor literature and many books covertly encouraged what was known as ‘the gentle art of trespass’. Ruskin extolled its beauties, while novelists Charlotte Brontë and George Eliot used closely observed Peakland settings for some of their most vivid narratives. Topographical writers including Edward Bradbury, Thomas Tudor and James Croston enthusiastically described the delights of the Derbyshire scenery to the ever-increasing stream of Victorian visitors. This charming anthology brings together the finest writing about the Peak District through the ages. It revives many engaging, forgotten descriptions of what many people still believe to be the finest, most varied and best-loved landscape in the whole of Britain. 208 pages with many illustrations in colour and b/w. £16.99 NOW £6.50


76521 SEVEN POOR TRAVELLERS


by Charles Dickens At Watts’ Charity, a sparse yet cosy almshouse, seven travellers share stories following a hearty Christmas Eve dinner. Full of turkey, beef and hot wassail, they recount tales of brave soldiers, scheming blackmailers, naïve lovers and charming children. This was the fifth Christmas edition of Dickens’ hugely popular periodical


‘Household Words’. Originally published in 1854, by which time Dickens was already favoured festive reading for many Victorian families, the collection also includes stories by contemporaries including Adelaide Anne Proctor, George A. Sala and Wilkie Collins, whose exciting tale is regarded as the first British detective story (The Fourth Poor Traveller). 136pp in paperback. £7.99 NOW £4


76513 MERCHANT’S TALE by Geoffrey Chaucer


A dual-language edition of Geoffrey Chaucer’s timeless tale of adultery and deception, presenting a brand new modern English translation by scholar Lyn Richmond. Combining a high rhetoric style with typical Chaucerian carnality, The Merchant’s Tale is a love story with a darker side. Faced with conflicting advice from his friends,


age-withered January selects a radiant young wife. His beloved, innocence embodied to the untrained eye, wastes little time acquainting herself with his staff. Chaucer’s genius is to elevate her transgressions to the level of gender politics. As deities intervene to decide the plight of future Man and Woman, the full significance of January and May’s relationship is revealed. 84 page paperback.


£6.99 NOW £3 76349 SELECTED LETTERS


OF CHARLES DICKENS edited by Jenny Hartley The 450 letters included here have been cherry-picked from a vast 14,000, to give readers the best essence of the ‘Sparkler of Albion’. He was a man with ten times the energy of ordinary mortals. He wrote: ‘I am become incapable of rest. I am quite confident I should rust, break, and die, if I spared myself. Much better to die, doing’.


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glorious 79 years. During that time, a person living in the UK will eat 479 fish fingers, take 7,163 baths, shed 121 pints of tears, dream 104,390 dreams, buy 733 balloons and spend £658 on Christmas crackers. Covers everything from atoms to alcohol and the solar system to stomach acid. 397 pages, colour illus. £14.99 NOW £5


76123 RETURN OF


THE BUNNY SUICIDES by Andy Riley


A grimly hilarious look at endings, the very popular cartoon bunny whose only wish is to die is back. See his ears popping out from


the Olympic torch cauldron, playing swing ball with a hand grenade, getting clobbered on the head by a book delivery, folding himself into the Corby trouser press, and very graphically shredding his head with an enormous cheese grater! Over 100 cartoons to ‘enjoy’ in this sadistic, utterly hilarious new collection. £10.99 NOW £3


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