Chalcot Crescent

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Meet Frances, one-time national treasure, former famous writer… and Fay Weldon’s might-have-been younger sister. It’s 2013. Fay has long since emigrated (wouldn’t you, if your imaginary sister stole …

The Evolution of Bruno Littlemore

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SHORTLISTED FOR THE DYLAN THOMAS PRIZE 2011 Bruno Littlemore; linguist, artist, philosopher. A life defined by a soaring mind, yet bound by a restrictive body. Born in down-town Chicago, Bruno’s preco …

Driving Us Insane

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

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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 …

DON'T VOTE – It Just Encourages the Bastards

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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

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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 Ralph Steadman Book of Dogs

Ralph Steadman – artist of distinction, caricaturist of brilliance, long time unsentimental dog-lover – here shows us dogs – everywhere. Dogs in furniture; dog dictators; fashion dogs; blot dogs; beer …

Prisoner's Dilemma

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BY THE AUTHOR OF THE BOOKER PRIZE-SHORTLISTED BEWILDERMENT AND THE OVERSTORYSomething is wrong with Eddie Hobson Sr., father of four, sometime history teacher, quiz master, black humourist and virtuos …

Driving Like Crazy

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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 …

Big Boys' Toys

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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

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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 …

Welcome to Life

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In politically correct middle-class Cambridge at the tail end of the 1980s, Freya’s nouveau riche parents are, well, different. Millie, her mum, doesn’t have a maternal bone in her body. Self-obsessed …

Peace Kills

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 …

Peace Kills

‘A hilarious, no-holds-barred tour of the new world order, from ‘America’s greatest prose comedian’ – Sunday TimesPeace Kills is an eye-opening look at a world much changed since O’Rourke wrote his be …

Stumped!

Stumped! offers definitive answers to sports-related conundrums including: * Which country is the best at sport?* Who would win a fight between Muhammad Ali and Bruce Lee?* In motor racing, is the car …

Never Hit a Jellyfish with a Spade

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The big things in life look after themselves. Birth, love, death – they’re all terrifically exciting, but they happen whether we like it or not. It’s the little things in life that cause the most trou …