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Who Would Win a Fight between Muhammad Ali and Bruce Lee?

Nicholas Hobbes

RRP: £7.99

Nicholas Hobbes tackles the sports-related questions that thousands of people have debated in front of the TV and in the pub, but for which they have never found a definitive answer. These include: Wh …

Driving Us Insane

Toby Clements

Driving Us Insane reveals the presenter of TV’s cult motoring series Bottom Gear as he has never been revealed before. Week by week, car by car, stunt by stunt and challenge by challenge, it describes …

Mennonite in a Little Black Dress

Rhoda Janzen

RRP: £8.99

Shortlisted for the Thurber Prize for American Humor22 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list’Wonderfully intelligent and frank… I loved this book, and Rhoda Janzen. She is a terrific, pithy, b …

Jazz

Herman Leonard

This collection includes Leonard’s classic photographs of the greats of jazz: from Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington and Dexter Gordon to Frank Sinatra and Tony Bennett. His uniquely evocative and cinem …

DON'T VOTE – It Just Encourages the Bastards

P. J. O'Rourke

RRP: £8.99

Best-selling humorist P.J. O’Rourke is back with his latest political masterpiece, DON’T VOTE – It Just Encourages the Bastards. Far from the typical high school textbook’s survey of United States his …

Sod's Law

Sam Leith

RRP: £7.99

To every explorer with his map upside down, to every air-traffic controller suddenly receiving Magic FM through his headphones, to every astronomer whose new planet turns out to be a bit of bran-flake …

The Gilded Stage

Daniel Snowman

RRP: £30.00

The Gilded Stage is a comprehensive tour of the world of opera. From its origins in the courts of northern Italy, to its internationally recognised position in modern culture, Snowman explores the soc …

Driving Like Crazy

P.J. O'Rourke

RRP: £8.99

Jump in and buckle-up. P. J. O’Rourke delivers his rapid-fire wit from the driver’s seat of Buicks, Land Rovers, Harley-Davidsons and at least one Soviet army surplus truck. Driving Like Crazy is a hi …

The Clash

The Clash

RRP: £14.99

The Clash: trendsetters, icons, revolutionaries. They were the pioneers of British punk rock and their story is steeped in mythology. Many people have an opinion about what made them who they were – t …

London Calling

Barry Miles

RRP: £12.99

London has long been a magnet for aspiring artists and writers, musicians and fashion designers seeking inspiration and success. In London Calling, Barry Miles explores the counter-culture – creative, …

A Stout Pair of Boots

Peter Stanley

RRP: £8.99

More and more Australians are visiting battlefields around the world, from Gallipoli and France to Vietnam. But what do you do when you get there? This essential guide to the Australian battlefields t …

Big Boys' Toys

Scott McGregor

RRP: £7.99

All over the country, in sheds, hangers and harbours, a silent army of dedicated other halves have been tinkering away. At last, in Big Boys’ Toys, these blokes step out into the daylight to be counte …

On The Wealth of Nations

P. J. O'Rourke

RRP: £16.99

A New York Times BestsellerAs P. J. O’Rourke says, ‘It’s as if Smith, having proved that we can all have more money, then went on to prove that money doesn’t buy happiness. And it doesn’t. It rents it …

Anything Goes

Lucy Moore

RRP: £14.99

Bracketed by the catastrophes of the Great War and the Wall Street Crash, 1920s America was a place of drama, tension and hedonism. It glittered and seduced: jazz, flappers, wild all-night parties, th …

I Love You Beth Cooper

Larry Doyle

RRP: £7.99

The hilarious first novel from Simpsons writer Larry Doyle – and soon to be a major flim directed by Chris Columbus and starring Hayden Panettiere.Denis Cooverman wanted to say something really import …

Peace Kills

P.J. O'Rourke

In this latest collection of adventures, P. J. O’Rourke casts his mordant eye on America’s recent forays into warfare. Imperialism has never been more fun. O’Rourke first travels to Kosovo, where he m …

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