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		The Christmas Letters
		The Ultimate Collection of Round Robin Letters		Miscellaneous
		Simon Hoggart
		Atlantic 2007 288 pages		Qty
		Paperback 1843546671
		Published Price £7.99		Our Price £3.99
	For years, readers of Simon Hoggart's Guardian column have been sending him examples of the dreaded Christmas round robin. Edited (with names changed to protect the perpetrators) by Hoggart, these catalogues of domestic triumphs (Tamsin's Grade V piano) and tragedies (locked out of the camper van) are robbed of their power to infuriate - they are simply hilarious. This book comprises the two previous collections: The Cat that Could Open the Fridge and The Hamster that Loved Puccini.
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		How They Met: Fateful Ecounters of Famous Lovers, Rivals,
		Partners in Crime, and Other Strange Bedfellows		Miscellaneous
		Joey Green
		Black Dog & Leventhal 2003 320 pages		Qty
		Hardback Illustrated 1579123279
		Published Price £9.95		Our Price £3.99
	The stories of 150 celebrity couples and double acts from Mick Jagger and Keith Richards to Prince Charles and Diana Spencer, with a picture of each pair, a short passage detailing what brought them together and a few pieces of trivia about their personal histories. 8”x8”, b&w throughout
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		The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
		10,000 Thoughts on the Business of Life		Miscellaneous
		Ted Goodman (Edited by)
		BD&L 1997 704 pages		Qty
		Paperback 1579127088
		Published Price £12.95		Our Price £4.99
	A reference work of business wit and wisdom for speakers, writers, CEOs, managers and employees, covering a range of subjects from advertising and leadership to prudence and respect, with contributors including John D Rockefeller, Winston Churchill, Bob Dylan and CS Lewis. 8”x7”
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		Spoken Cat
		and Relevant Factors in Worldview		Miscellaneous
		Alexandra Sellers
		Bellew 1997 176 pages		Qty
		Hardback 1857251172 250x186mm
		Published Price £17.50		Our Price £4.99
	Here is everything you'll need to converse with cats: language and cultural background. Arranged as an orthodox grammar, the course comprises nine lessons, each presenting a short conversational passage, followed by the grammatical rules it illustrates - from the personal pronouns (I/Mow) to the Offended Voice and Apology - with vocabulary. Further chapters cover tonality in spoken Cat, Cat music, myth and legend, and 'Einstein's Cat', a brief overview of the influence of Cats on human history.
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		Lenny Bruce: Let the Buyer Beware
				Miscellaneous
		Marvin Worth; Hal Willner (Edited by)
		Shout! 2004 80 pages		Qty
		HB + 6 audio CDs Illustrated 0738928429 270x225mm
		Published Price $69.98		Our Price £19.99
	Released 38 years after his death - but only one year after his posthumous pardon by the Governor of New York - this retrospective album comprises six audio CDs of performances by the legendary American stand up comedian Lenny Bruce (1925-1966). The CDs are accompanied by photographs, press cuttings, notes on the recordings and personal responses to Lenny by, among others, his daughter Kitty, Ralph Gleason and Bob Dylan.
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		Orgy Planner Wanted
		Odd Jobs and Curious Careers in the Ancient World		Miscellaneous
		Vicki Leon
		Quercus 2007 272 pages		Qty
		Hardback Illustrated 1847240968
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	What job would you have been doing if you had been around two millennia ago? Take your pick from this compendium of 150 exciting ancient career opportunities in fields ranging from the glamorous world of sport and culture (Olympic judge, water-organist, comedian) to the seedier side of life (rent boy, curse-tablet maker). You can also read the job profiles of 30 real-life professionals - such as super-librarian Callimachus - whose fame has endured through the ages.
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		The Meaning of Tingo
		and other Extraordinary Words from Around the World		Miscellaneous
		Adam Jacot de Boinod
		Penguin 2005 209 pages		Qty
		Hardback 1594200866
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	Foreign words and idioms can often economically describe concepts that English just has no word for, such as Czech presezeny - 'being stiff from sitting in the same position too long'. Among the many linguistic delights collected in this book are the Arabic word for 'to be an old fogey at the height of one's life', the unexpected meaning of bikini in Spanish, and the best chat-up line to use in Japan.
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		Shame About the Boat Race
		A Guide to Rhyming Slang		Miscellaneous
		Justin Crozier (Compiled by)
		HarperCollins 2006 114 pages		Qty
		Hardback Illustrated 0007241135
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	Rhyming slang has been a staple of English language since the early 19th century. From Abergavenny/penny to Zorba the Greek/take a leak, this dictionary of slang includes some Australian-origin entries and a few asides on Cockney culture.
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		I Smirt, You Stooze, They Krump
		Can You Still Speak English?		Miscellaneous
		J Crozier; C McKeown; E Summers
		HarperCollins 2006 184 pages		Qty
		Paperback 0007211767
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	In the world of celebutards, freakonomics, pajamahadeen and the thumb generation, is your vocabulary up to the challenge of fast-evolving English? Drawing on Collins's vast resources and with quotations from journalism showing the words' contexts, this A-Z presents an entertaining and enlightening collection of neologisms, including names for new things (pharmbot, pop-up shop), playful inventions, puns and allusions (tanorexic, Oprahfication), youth and subculture slang, internet words and acronyms.
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		Noisy Outlaws, Unfriendly Blobs
		and Some Other Things that Aren't as Scary, Maybe...		Miscellaneous
		Ted Thompson; Eli Horowitz (Edited by)
		McSweeney's 2005 208 pages		Qty
		Hardback Illustrated 1932416358
		Published Price $22.00		Our Price £3.99
	Lemony Snicket, author of A Series of Unfortunate Events, introduces this volume of stories and strip cartoons dealing with an assortment of 'dangerous things': monsters, a battle with the Purple Horde, Epicureans who have eaten everything that can be eaten, a mysterious cell-phone and the Sixth Borough of New York City. With stories by, among others, Nick Hornby, Clement Freud, Neil Gaiman and Jonathan Safran Foer.
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		Making Love to Marilyn Monroe
		The Faber Book of Blue Verse		Miscellaneous
		John Whitworth (Edited by)
		Faber 2006 306 pages		Qty
		Paperback 0571228275
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	Candidly sexual verse has always thrived in literature and virtually every great poet is represented in this anthology: from the Roman Marcus Argentarius ('Hetero-sex is Best'), through Chaucer and the ribaldry of 'The Miller's Tale', Rochester and Rimbaud, to a lewd limerick by TS Eliot.
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		Taking the Piss
		A Potted History of Pee		Miscellaneous
		Adam Hart-Davis; Emily Troscianko
		Chalford 2006 190 pages		Qty
		Hardback 1845883519
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	Inspired by his award-winning BBC Radio Four programme, this irreverent work by Adam Hart-Davis and his sidekick Emily Troscianko takes the reader on a whirlwind tour of the history and mysteries of urine. Adam's inimitable style brings the science to life - whether re-hydrating emergency rations with urine or concentrating the psychoactive molecule of fly agaric - while Emily adds a dash of culture and celebrity with the aid of Andy Warhol and Geoffrey Chaucer, the Ancient Greeks and the Rolling Stones.
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		How to Attract the Wombat
				Miscellaneous
		Will Cuppy
		Sutton 2007 166 pages		Qty
		Paperback Illustrated 0750946105
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	This was the last satirical animal book by Will Cuppy (1884-1949), the American humorist famous for The Decline and Fall of Practically Everybody. In short essays, Cuppy examines curious creatures whose habits - or mere existence - seem to have disturbed him, and more mundane creatures like the frog or gnat which have no visible vices, but whose virtues are truly awful. The book deals with mammals, pond life, birds and insects, but pride of place goes to the 'Problem Mammal', the wombat.
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		The Compulsive Spike Milligan
				Miscellaneous
		Norma Farnes (Edited by)
		Fourth Estate 2004 455 pages		Qty
		Hardback 0007193335
		Published Price £18.99		Our Price £6.99
	Spike's agent Norma Farnes has assembled this selection of the best bits from his prolific output, based around the personal favourites he included in his one-man show. In addition to excerpts from his war memoirs, novels and rewriting of the Bible, the book includes some of Spike's drawings and poems, typewritten television and radio scripts and letters to recipients as diverse as Margaret Thatcher, Lew Grade, Marty Feldman, George Martin and Cliff Morgan.
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		Box 18
		The Unpublished Spike Milligan		Miscellaneous
		Norma Farnes (Edited by)
		Fourth Estate 2006 254 pages		Qty
		Hardback Illustrated 0007214278 263x190mm
		Published Price £18.99		Our Price £6.99
	'Box 18' was Spike Milligan's file of current writings, drawings, letters and photos. Unpublished at his death in 2002, the file's contents have been edited by Spike's manager, biographer and lifelong friend, Norma Farnes. Along with draft scripts, poems and lyrics are diary entries and a collection of letters to friend and foe: 'I'll see you in court' he wrote to the Harrods credit manager; and to Lord Miles, a postscript: 'I notice that your name hasn't gone metric yet'.
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