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


Vale and Alison Rattle 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 more. 256 pages. £9.99 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


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


SCIENCE FICTION


We are an impossibility in an impossible universe.


- Ray Bradbury


76493 101 SCI-FI MOVIES YOU MUST SEE


BEFORE YOU DIE by Steven Jay Schneider Can you tell your Dagobah from your Delof and your Ming from your Morlock? Do you need help understanding 2001: A Space Odyssey? From the classic low-budget Flash Gordon tales to the slick CGI-realised world of The Matrix, science


fiction films have long pushed at the boundaries of the visually and dramatically fantastic. Here is your perfect one-stop guide to them all. Take the classic boy-meets- girl story, then make them mutant. Create a haunted house story, then add robots. Great sci-fi movies turn the known world on its head, play with the laws of physics and all the while hold viewers spellbound in a future world. Strap yourself in for close encounters, distant planets, black holes, time travel, strange outfits and fluorescent drinks. Recall again such eerie moments as Yul Brynner’s ‘Automaton the Gunslinger’, a recreation of his character from the Magnificent Seven shown in one photo with acid thrown at him, smouldering. 416pp in chunky softback packed with colour photos from The Incredible Shrinking Man, Planet of the Apes, A Clockwork Orange, Return of the Jedi, Terminator 2, Dune and nearly 100 more. $14.99 NOW £4.50


75197 MAMMOTH BOOK OF TIME TRAVEL SF edited by Mike Ashley


25 mind bending science fiction stories by Kage Baker, Michael Swanwick, Christopher Priest, Robert Silverberg, Damien Broderick, Simon Clark, Fritz Leiber, Ellen Klages, John Varley and many others. What happens when we meddle with time? This collection takes us into the past and the future exploring what might happen if we attempt to manipulate time to our own advantage. 535pp in paperback. $13.95 NOW £5


75600 SALVAGE by Robert Edric


100 years in the future in the far north of England, the Gulf Stream has ceased and the climate is in turmoil. Civil servant Quinn has been appointed to conduct an audit on a remote area of land designated for a brand new model town. Soon he is immersed in a quagmire of corruption. He meets the winners and the losers. Winston, a disillusioned journalist


turned alcoholic with a gallery of photos which show dangerous levels of water below the site, and Pollard, the local man of God whose faith is for sale. But it is Anna, Quinn’s some-time girlfriend in charge of filling the dead cattle pits who faces the deepest abyss of all. An all-too-plausible Orwellian vision. 348pp. £16.99 NOW £2.50


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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


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


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 £2.50


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 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 £4.50


75996 CORSETS & CLOCKWORK: 13 Steampunk Romances edited by Trisha Telep


Steampunk is a hugely popular new form of fiction, where the vampire story meets gothic Victorian romance. Where would the story be without the kick- ass rebellion - in an airship under goggles, in a corset that is simply impossible to swim in, fighting Lovecraftian monsters in a 1958 T-Bird or dodging metal Nazis? Come for the steam, stay for the punk. In this book you will find magical outcasts and kindred spirits, feisty heroines and genius inventors, war zones and supernatural rituals, darkness and dystopia. 13 tales where technomagical and natural desires collide with humanity on the line. 437pp, paperback. $9.95 NOW £3.75


76130 MOCKINGBIRD by Walter Tevis


In a dying world where humans are drugged and lulled by electronic bliss, where there is no art, no literature and there are no children, where some would rather burn themselves alive than endure, Spofforth is the most perfect machine ever created. But his only desire is the impossible - to cease to be. Yet there is hope in this bleak, depressing time, in the passion and joy that a man and woman discover in love and in books. The author died in 1984 and is best known for his works The Hustler and The Man Who Fell to Earth. 299pp. £7.99 NOW £4


76132 SHRINKING MAN by Richard Matheson Scott Carey has been exposed to a cloud of radioactive spray. Now he can no longer deny the


extraordinary truth. Not only is he losing weight, he is also shorter - Scott Carey has begun to shrink. At first he continues some kind of normal life, then later, having left human contact behind, he must survive in a world where insects


and spiders are giant enemies on his journey into the unknown. Just like a Kafka fable, the novel was first published in 1956 and stands alongside ‘I Am Legend’ as Matheson’s most important contribution to the science fiction genre. Paperback, 201pp. £7.99 NOW £3.50


76135 STEAMPUNK by Paul Roland


What began in the late 1980s as an underground community of science fantasy aficionados with a fetish for Victoriana now purveys almost every aspect of popular culture from music and movies to computer games and comics. Steampunk is much more than a retro-futuristic fashion statement or subgenre of science fiction. The literature, art, music and films of this burgeoning community offer a radical and irreverent reimagining of society. The world of steampunk is the elegant gas lit world of Jules Verne and H. G. Wells, of Michael Moorcock and their literary antecedents for whom the digital age never dawned. Sub-titled ‘Back to the Future with the New Victorians’, Paul Roland traces the history of steampunk drawing on exclusive interviews with key figures including Cherie Priest, Mark Hodder, Kris Kukski and Professor Elemental. 192pp in paperback, colour plates. £9.99 NOW £3.50


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The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page. - Augustine of Hippo


77141 A TRAVELLER’S


HISTORY OF GREECE by Timothy Boatswain and Colin Nicolson Providing a concise and authoritative narrative, from the country’s very beginnings to the present day, this book’s combination of easy reference and good writing makes it an ideal companion. Rather than solely concentrating on Greece’s classical past, the volume


covers the many other facets of Greek history, including the conflicts with Persia, the conquest by the Romans, the Byzantine age and the occupation by the Turks. Later, the struggle for independence is documented and the turbulent 20th and 21st centuries explored, right up to the recent troubled economic circumstances. This history will help readers to make sense of modern Greece against the background of its heritage. The gazetteer, cross-referenced to the main text, highlights the importance of sites, towns and battlefields as well as details of ancient battles. 338 paperback pages with line drawings, maps, a note on transliteration, spelling and pronunciation, chronology of major events, heads of state since independence and historical gazetteer. £9.99 NOW £4.50


76773 COCONUT CHAOS by Diana Souhami


A beguiling little book about Pitcairn Island which retells the familiar story of the mutiny on the Bounty. Souhami delivers travel writing at its hilarious best and she knows exactly when to let the appalling Lady Myre blunder into the narrative and when to send her back under the mosquito net. At dawn on 27th April 1789 Fletcher


Christian, master’s mate on HMS Bounty, took a coconut from the supply on the quarterdeck. He thought this an ‘act of no consequence’ but consequences followed - mutiny, a 3,000 mile journey across the Pacific in an open boat without maps and with starving men, the colonising of Pitcairn Island and, 200 years later, the seduction of the narrator in a rudderless yacht on stormy seas. Fact and fiction is interwoven. 259pp, paperback with illus. £8.99 NOW £3.50


76795 OCEAN BOULEVARD by David Baboulene


David Baboulene runs away to sea in a cloud of romantic dust for the first of his globetrotting adventures. It takes him across the world and back, from New Orleans and Houston, Barbados and Jamaica, through the Panama Canal to Sydney and Melbourne then back across the Pacific, through the Gilbert and Solomon Islands, Samoa, Tonga, Fiji and the Azores,


to a triumphant homecoming in Liverpool. Despite the laughs, the real journey in this strangely moving tale takes David from boy to man and here are his tall tales and youthful high jinks, hilarious tours such as the one in Barbados, and full of good old self-deprecating humour. 318pp in paperback. £8.99 NOW £3


77134 PANTHER SOUP: A European Journey in War and


Peace by John Gimlette Written by a born traveller and a practicing barrister from London, the book is about the appetites of war and peace - for food, sex and human comfort - unbridled, sordid and somehow, in the ability to lead a civilisation back to itself, redeeming. Travelling back through the final stages of the war, Gimlette discovers what happened to the


battlefields, to the people who smashed their way across the continent, and to those who lived in the carnage. He reveals a very different contemporary Europe constructed on the smouldering ruins of its predecessor. It is a very special piece of travel writing journeying to past familiar European landmarks with someone who knew them in the post-war chaos of the 1940s. By the end of World War Two, in the hinterlands of France and across the German plains, what happened to the battlefields? Who lived on them? Is there any trace of the 2.7 million Americans who smashed their way into the Reich or the 12 million who followed? A subtle book, with telling testimony from the survivors linking old and new worlds, ideals and ideologies. 402pp in paperback with photos. £8.99 NOW £4


77142 A TRAVELLER’S


HISTORY OF TURKEY by Richard Stoneman This comprehensive book offers a complete history from the earliest recorded times to the present day. Emphasis is given to those aspects of history which have left their mark on the sites and monuments that are still visible today. The modern Turkish state is a 20th century creation, but at least seven ancient civilisations had their homes


in the region. Turkey formed a significant part of Persia, Historic Walks City & Country Rambles


77127 HISTORIC WALKS IN AND AROUND


BIRMINGHAM by Brian Conduit The city centre, canals and Jewellery Quarter, Tolkien country, Rowley Hills and Bumble Hole, Dudley, Tamworth, the River Anker and Coventry Canal, around Lichfield and Cannock Chase, Henley-in-Arden and Stratford-upon-Avon canal,


Alcester and the River Arrow, around Kenilworth, the National Forest, George Eliot country, Boscobel House, Shakespeare country, Worcester and Elgar country and the Battle of Evesham are among the 25 suggested city and country rambles for all ages and abilities. Birmingham is a city of contrasts. It bears the scars of its industrial past but recently there has been a series of impressive modern developments enhancing its remaining Victorian buildings and restoring canals. Wander through delightful old towns and villages and enjoy the lush beauty of the Avon and Severn valleys. Includes route maps and places for refreshment. Colour photos. 180pp in paperback. £8.95 NOW £4


77129 HISTORIC WALKS


IN AND AROUND YORK by Brian Conduit


Glossy colourful pages packed with photos, historical facts and stories, easy-to-follow maps and directions, this is the only book you will need to walk York and the surrounding area. Stroll along lovely country paths, allow the life of castles, battlefields, abbeys or country houses to unfold before your eyes. The walks are


leisurely, designed for all ages and abilities, with plenty of opportunity to enjoy the views, absorb the history and relax in one of the many cosy pubs or cafés. Enjoy the formal gardens at Harewood House, Spofforth Castle, Knaresborough, Markenfield Hall, Ripon Cathedral and the deserted medieval village of Wharram Percy. 25 walks in total around city and country including of course York Minster, the castles, museums and gardens and National Railway Museum. 180pp in paperback. £8.95 NOW £4


77128 HISTORIC WALKS IN AND AROUND


NEWCASTLE by Brian Conduit


Newcastle-Upon-Tyne is one of the few cities in Britain to possess a medieval castle, while handsome and classical buildings graces its centre, as well as some stunning examples of modern art and architecture, not least the Angel of the North. There is a superb coastline, pleasant river


valleys, and the moorlands of the North Pennines, Simonside and Cheviot Hills, as well as interesting old towns and villages such as Barnard Castle, Hexham and Alnwick. Two National Trails traverse the region and the finest surviving stretch of Hadrian’s Wall provides a magnificent combination of scenery and history. There is a greater concentration of castles here than anywhere else in the country. Maps, historical background info, colour photos and 25 suggested city and country walks for all. Paperback, 180pp.


£8.95 NOW £4 77287 HISTORIC WALKS IN AND


AROUND...: Set of Three by Brian Conduit Buy all three paperbacks and save even more. £26.85 NOW £8


Rome and Byzantium, before becoming the centre of the Ottoman Empire. This readable account covers the legendary Flood of Noah, the early civilisation of Catal Huyuk 7,000 years before Christ, the treasure of Troy, Alexander the Great, the Romans, the Seljuks, the Byzantines and the Golden Age of the Sultans, right up to the 20th century’s upheaval and the change wrought by Kemal Atatürk that culminated in the strong position Turkey now occupies on the world stage. 247 paperback pages with line drawings, maps, note on spelling and nomenclature, chronology of major events, major battles, list of native rulers and historical gazetteer.


£9.99 NOW £4.50


75967 WALKING WITH THE WOUNDED: The Incredible Story of Britain’s Bravest Warriors and the Challenge


of a Lifetime by Mark McCrum


This remarkable book tells the inspiring story of how four soldiers who had suffered devastating injuries in recent conflicts set out on a challenge to trek 200 miles, unsupported, to the North Pole.


Eventually, the final team was fixed: the two founders, four wounded soldiers, a polar guide and their patron, Prince Harry. Once they had ventured inside the Arctic Circle, they had to contend with pulling sleds weighing more than 100 kg over vast swaths of ice rubble, pressure ridges and dangerous open water ‘leads’. The ground could literally tear itself apart beneath them as they slept. There was constant daylight and temperatures plummeting to 35 degrees below zero. 307 paperback pages, colour photos. £13.99 NOW £2.25


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