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The Baby Boom

P.J. O'Rourke

RRP: £9.99

The Baby Boom – over-sized, overwrought, overbearing, and all over the place, from Donovan to Obama. The generation that said with a straight face, ‘We are the world.’What’s so funny about peace, love …

Starting With Max

Ying Ying

RRP: £8.99

My dog has demonstrated a grand theory about life’s simplest activities. He acts out the meaning of life by actively living it. Do not think so much about yourself, he tells me. Know where you’re goin …

Mozart in the Jungle

Blair Tindall

RRP: £10.99

Now a major Amazon.com TV series starring Gabriel Garcia Bernal.From her debut recital at Carnegie Hall to performing with the orchestras of Les Miserables and Miss Saigon, oboist Blair Tindall has be …

Happiness

Matthieu Ricard

RRP: £10.99

This step-by-step guide to achieving happiness is the most significant book of its kind since Daniel Goleman’s runaway bestseller, Emotional Intelligence.’A remarkable book. It is hard to imagine a mo …

Making Soapies in Kabul

Trudi-Ann Tierney

RRP: £12.99

On an impulse, Trudi-Ann Tierney, Sydney producer and former actress, goes to Kabul to manage a bar. She quickly falls into the local TV industry, where she becomes responsible for producing a highly …

Frank Zappa

Barry Miles

RRP: £12.99

Barry Miles knew Frank Zappa intimately and was present at the recording of some of his most important albums. This sparkling biography brings the Zappa the musician and composer, Zappa the controvers …

How to Be Normal

Guy Browning

RRP: £9.99

Normal people are extremely unusual. Think of all the people you know and ask yourself how many are normal. None of them! In fact you’re probably the most normal of the lot and, let’s face it, even yo …

Don't Tell Mum

Emily Monk

RRP: £7.99

Sunday Telegraph Humour Book of the Year Hilarious – Daily MailA hilarious and invaluable insight for gap-year travellers into what to avoid out there.The email home is an essential part of every gap- …

The C.E.O. of the Sofa

P.J. O'Rourke

New York Times best-selling author P. J. O’Rourke lobbed one-liners on the battlefields of the Gulf War, traded quips with communist rebels in the jungles of the Philippines, and went undercover at th …

The C.E.O. of the Sofa

P. J. O'Rourke

In The CEO of the Sofa, P. J. tackles everything and the kitchen sink, fighting evil, injustice, and absurdity with the gloves off and the oven mitts on.New York Times best-selling author P. J. O’Rour …

Moron to Moron

Tom Doig

RRP: £9.99

In July 2010, Tom Doig and his best mate Tama Pugsley cycled 1487 kilometres across northern Mongolia from a small town called Moron to a smaller town also called Moron. Why? Because it was there. Arm …

The Baby Boom

P. J. O'Rourke

RRP: £9.99

A hilarious look at the aging baby boomer generation from the author the Spectator labelled ‘what happens when America does Grumpy Old Men’.The Baby Boom – over-sized, overwrought, overbearing, and al …

Pretty Girl In Crimson Rose

Sandy Balfour

RRP: £10.99

A little gem of a memoir… The book adds up to more than a sum of its parts and lingers in the memory long after the final page. — Sunday TelegraphHalf a million people a day do it in the Telegraph. …

The Illustrated Christmas Cracker

John Julius Norwich

For over forty years, John Julius Norwich has been sending out his Christmas Crackers – a personal collection of quirky quotes and literary odds and ends – to his friends instead of a Christmas card. …

Why Steve Was Late

Dave Skinner

RRP: £7.99

A laugh-out-loud funny book of excuses for terrible timekeeping. Why Steve Was Late is a book of hilarious (and even – occasionally – plausible!) reasons for tardiness, handily dreamed up by someone e …

I Say Nothing (3)

Sandy Balfour

This delightful book explores the world of the cryptic crossword clue, a place where nothing is quite as it seems. From reflections on his children’s musical tastes (might ABBA be an Old Testament cit …

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