101 Reasons You're Better Off Single
Be the envy of all your attached mates with 101 fab reasons why you’re better
off on your own!
1-84317-195-3 • £2.50 •
95x85mm • PB • 128pp
PUB DATE: 19.01.2006
A SHITE HISTORY OF NEARLY EVERYTHING
A. Parody
1-84317-138-4 • £9.99 • 198x129mm • HB • 160pp
PUB DATE 22.9.2005
The hilarious successor to the same author’s
bestselling Shite’s
Unoriginal Miscellany and Eats, Shites & Leaves: Crap
English and How to Use It.
Packed with bizarre ideas and hopeless theories, Antal
Parody’s
latest offering courageously tackles the history of the entire planet
in a way that will not only challenge your knowledge of history, but
also your very sanity.
EATS, SHITES & LEAVES
A. Parody
1-84317-098-1 • £9.99 • HB • 198x129mm • 168pp • Published:
1 September 2004
The bestselling compilation and wittily informative insight into
the use and abuse of the English language.
SHITE'S UNORIGINAL MISCELLANY
A. Parody
1-84317-064-7 • £9.99 • HB • 198x129mm • 162pp • 2003
Priceless snippets of information from ‘rarely used murder
weapons’ to the contents of ‘the dog first-aid kit’.
THE WORLD’S STUPIDEST SERIES
Truth is stranger than fiction,
so they say, and judging by the endless supply of material for the
hugely successful The World’s
Stupidest series, they’re undoubtedly right. From ridiculous
road signs and hilarious newspaper headlines, to ludicrous laws,
certifiable criminals, goofy celebrities and the ultimate dimwits
who brought about their own deaths, The World’s Stupidest books reveal the loopy side of human nature and make you wonder
quite how we’ve survived for so long...
THE WORLD'S STUPIDEST HUSBANDS
1-84317-168-6 • £4.99 •
178x111mm • PB •
128pp
PUB DATE 8.9.2005
THE WORLD'S STUPIDEST CELEBRITIES
1-84317-137-6 • £4.99 • 178x111mm • PB • 128pp
PUB DATE 8.9.2005
THE WORLD'S STUPIDEST DEATHS
1-84317-136-8 • £4.99 • 178x111mm • PB • 128pp
PUB DATE 8.9.2005
THE WORLD'S STUPIDEST HEADLINES
1-84317-105-8 • £4.99 • 178x111mm • PB • 128pp
• 2004
THE WORLD'S STUPIDEST SIGNS
1-84317-170-8 • £4.99 • 178x111mm • PB • 128pp
PUB DATE 8.9.2005
MORE OF THE WORLD'S STUPIDEST SIGNS
1-84317-032-9 • £4.99 • 178x111mm • PB • 128pp
PUB DATE 8.9.2005
THE WORLD'S STUPIDEST LAWS
1-84317-172-4 • £4.99 • 178x111mm • PB • 128pp
PUB DATE 8.9.2005
THE WORLD'S STUPIDEST CRIMINALS
1-84317-171-6 • £4.99 • 178x111mm • PB • 128pp
PUB DATE 8.9.2005
YOU ARE WHAT YOU SHITE
Dr Julian Keech
1-84317-166-X • £6.99 • 140x135mm • HB • 160pp
PUB DATE 6.10.2005
Everything you ever wanted to know about
shite but were afraid to dirty your hands with.
The perfect companion volume to Dr Gillian McKeith’s You
Are What You Eat, You Are What You Shite sees our own Dr Julian Keech
examining every aspect of the noble turd.
FARTING
A Guffer’s Guide
I. Dunwun
1-84317-165-1 • £4.99 • 111x111mm • PB • 160pp
PUB DATE 8.9.2005
Bursting with so many fluffs, parps, trats, trumps and
whumps that it’s best read with the window open!
Farting is a mine of information about the glorious guff, from hissers
and squeakers to trumpets and bum blasts. Keep the air freshener
handy.
GROSS BRITAIN
The Antidote to Patriotism
Taffy St George McScot
1-84317-160-0 • £6.99 • 140x135mm • HB • 160pp
PUB DATE 6.10.2005
A bizarre look at the stranger aspects of the
people and history of the British Isles.
If Britain is so great, why do we do or say
things gross and dumb enough to make any patriot’s Union-Jack
underpants self combust? Packed with facts, anecdotes and quotations,
Gross Britain examines the stranger areas of ‘Great-Britishness’.
MINGIN’ OR BLINGIN’
Essential Modern English
Tim Collins
1-84317-163-5 • £4.99 • 111x111mm • PB • 160pp
PUB DATE 7.7.2005
Explains the unfathomable mysteries of modern street slang.
Part glossary, part dictionary, part survival guide, this is a light-hearted
look at everyday street slang to help learn you Blinglish.
THE TIMEWASTER LETTERS
Robin Cooper
1-84317-169-4 • £5.99 • 198x129mm • PB • 192pp
PUB DATE 2.9.2005
‘Downright hilarious’ – Observer
Robin Cooper’s bestselling The Timewaster
Letters is now available
in handy B-format size. This hugely successful, critically acclaimed
volume – feted by the likes of Ricky Gervais, Matt Lucas and
Avid Merrion – is back to charm, amuse and entertain in equal
measure.
For several years, Robin Cooper has been plaguing department stores,
collectors’ groups, associations and a certain children’s
book publisher with his letters. From the Campaign for Courtesy to
the British Halibut Association – no one is safe.
HUMPED ME, DUMPED ME
Why You Were F****d and Chucked and How to Bounce Back
Yasmin Brooks and Cathy Gray
1-84317-159-7 • £5.99 • 198x129mm • PB • 160pp
PUB DATE 8.9.2005
A hilarious study of the realities of dating in the modern world
A mixture of tips, anecdotes, ‘how to’ guides and case
studies, this is an essential handbook for every woman looking for
romance with a partner, but finding only love rats on the prowl.
CRAP TEAMS
Geoff Tibballs
1-84317-111-2 • £9.99 • 134x158mm • HB • 160pp
PUB DATE 6.10.2005
Forty years of the most useless incompetents ever to set foot on
a football pitch.
A hilarious guide to the worst seasons and shock defeats of some
of the best-known football clubs, packed with statistics and trivia
and fully illustrated with all-action photographs. Even the best
clubs have the odd off day and, as this book proves, having a full-to-bursting
trophy cabinet, or even a tabloid darling on the ball, is just no
guarantee of sporting success.
SCHOOL RULES
Tim Collins
1-84317-100-7 • PB • £4.99 • 144x111mm • 128pp
PUB DATE 12.5.05
When we start school we're told the rules: no running in the corridors,
no chewing gum in class, and always raise your hand before answering
a question.The rules we really follow are very different: never tell
anyone it's your birthday, in case the big kids flush your head down
the toilet; always draw willies, tits, and Hitler moustaches on your
textbooks and never, under any circumstances, get caught reading
a book instead of playing British Bulldog at lunchtime.
SPEAK WELL ENGLISH
Tomas Santos
1-84317-088-4 • £5.99 • PB • 144x111mm • 160pp • 2004
‘At what clock must I evacuate myself?’
The essential phrasebook for all would-be English speakers – a
blisteringly hilarious celebration of incomprehension, misunderstanding
and mistranslation.
With entries covering travel, health, shopping, music, art, among
a host of wide-ranging themes, Speak Well English includes a multitude
of fascinating, yet useless, phrases compiled by a well-meaning novice
of the English language.
‘I have suffering of my hip’s juncture.’
Despite being cursed with a profound ignorance of his subject, Tomas
Santos is also blessed with a gift for the inspired guess and is
always passionate in his efforts to help fellow foreigners. The final
words should go to the great man himself: ‘Cheerio
to your good health, and up your bottoms!’
THE JORDAN JOKE BOOK
A. C. Parfitt
1-84317-120-1 • £4.99 • PB • 178 x 111mm • 128pp • 2004
Hundreds of brilliant jokes about Britain’s favourite dumb
blonde from the author of the bestselling David Beckham Joke Book.
She’s the glamour model whose fame reached new heights on
TV’s jungle-survival game show I’m A Celebrity, Get
Me Out Of Here! and who then became a bestselling author with her autobiography
Being Jordan. Suddenly Jordan was on everyone’s lips . . .
and the jokes started flying thick and fast.
Jordan goes to the dry-cleaner’s with her favourite leopardskin
body suit.
‘There’s a bit of a stain on it,’ she tells the guy
behind the counter.
Unfortunately the shopkeeper is slightly deaf. ‘Come again?’ he
says. ‘No,’ replies Jordan. ‘Just tomato ketchup
this time.’
Jordan and Peter Andre are getting hot and steamy in the bedroom.
‘Shouldn’t you be taking some precautions?’ asks
Jordan.
‘I am,’ says Peter. ‘I’ve strapped a plank
to my arse so I don’t fall in.’
Guaranteed to raise a titter every time!
THOMAS’S JOKE BOOK
Sarah Kennedy
1-84317-117-1 • £5.99 • PB • 198x129mm • 160pp • Published:
4 October 2004 • Rights available: World All Languages
Five million Dawn Patrol listeners heard Sarah Kennedy appeal for
jokes and stories – this is their response!
When little Thomas, aged three and a half, heard ‘his’ joke
being read out by Sarah Kennedy on her breakfast show, he was outraged: ‘Mummy,
Sarah’s stolen my joke!’ When Sarah heard about this,
she offered to make amends, asking her listeners to send in their
own jokes and stories so that she could collect them for Thomas.
And they did – in their thousands. Thomas’s Joke
Book is the result – hundreds of funny, silly, naughty and charming
jokes and true stories about children, in the bestselling tradition
of The Terrible Twos.
A 5% royalty on every copy sold will be donated to the NSPCC.
TV presenter and radio broadcaster Sarah Kennedy has her own weekday
breakfast show on BBC Radio 2 from 6.00 to 7.30 a.m. Sarah has written
the bestselling books The Terrible Twos, Terrible
Pets and Cats,
as well as a novel, Charlotte’s Friends.
BLAGGING IT
Paul Nero and James Moore
1-84317-104-X • £5.99 • PB • 198x129mm • 144pp •
2004
Hundreds of excellent tips on how to get something for nothing!
Blagging It is a hilarious guide that proves the best things in
life can be had for free – or nearly free. From shopping to
sex, this scrounger’s bible is packed with tips for the cheapskate
in us all. Blagging It explains how to: hold your wedding on the
cheap; cadge a free pint; profit from your baby; haggle in a department
store; and blag your way into executive parties. Packed full of diamond
scams, it’s the perfect guide for the schemer in us all.
Blagging It . . . because there is such a thing as a free lunch.
Paul Nero is the founding director of a copywriting agency. He is
a Yorkshireman and, therefore, by definition, a miser. James
Moore is a journalist who has blagged his way across a thousand doorsteps
in his time.
ROCK AND POP ELEVENS
Simon Trewin, Tom Bromley and Michael Moran
1-84317-112-0 • £9.99 • PB • 231x153mm • 192pp • 2004
Remarkable, funny, fantastic and downright stupid facts and stories
from the world of music.
In the seminal ‘rockumentary’ This
Is Spinal Tap, the
band’s amplifiers had volume controls that ‘went up to
eleven’, because ten just wasn’t loud enough. Let’s
face it, top tens are so last year – elevens are where it’s
at. So Rock and Pop Elevens includes lists like the eleven biggest
weight gains/losses from Boy George to Elvis; eleven albums the artists
would like to forget; eleven lost weekends featuring hellraisers
such as Ozzy Osbourne and Keith Richards; eleven urban myths we wish
were true; eleven sex scandals we wish weren’t; and the best
eleven singles that only reached number eleven in the charts.
The cool Christmas alternative to the Guinness
World Records: British Hit
Singles and Albums.
The authors (only three, not eleven) are Simon
Trewin, a literary
agent and columnist, Tom Bromley, a novelist and author of a book
on one-hit wonders and Michael Moran, a journalist on Mojo and Q.
POWER MAD!
Karl Shaw
1-84317-106-6 • £5.99 • PB • 198x129mm • 160pp • 2004
Astonishing authentic stories of world leaders who were power mad,
money mad – or just plain mad!
Power Mad! chronicles the outrageous plans and policies of the world’s
most demented dictators, from Chairman Mao banning The
Sound of Music as ‘a blatant example of capitalist pornography’ to ‘Papa
Doc’ Duvalier rewriting the Lord’s Prayer for compulsory
use in Haitian schools – ‘Our Doc, who art in the National
Palace for life . . .’ Read about Paraguay’s hopeless
three-front war, launched by a leader in the grip of a Napoleonic
delusion, and the Equatorial Guinean leader who once initiated a
Cabinet reshuffle by clubbing his Foreign Minister to death. Extremely
funny, if at times utterly horrifying, Power
Mad! proves that absolute
power doesn’t just corrupt – it can drive you totally
bonkers.
Includes barely believable stories about Idi Amin, Nicolae Ceausescu,
Adolf Hitler, Saddam Hussein, Chairman Mao, Josef Stalin, and many
more!
Karl Shaw is the author of a number of highly successful humour
books including Royal Babylon, Gross! and The
Mammoth Book of Tasteless Lists.
BORN FOR THE JOB
James Steen and Dominic Midgley
1-84317-099-X • £5.99 • PB • 178x111mm • 128pp
A Collection of Amusingly Apt Names
This book is based on the popular ‘Born for the Job’ feature
published in the Daily Mirror’s ‘Scurra’ column,
to which readers
send in examples of those people who have, either by design or
accident, ended up in jobs that ideally suit their names. There’s
a
plumber called Dave Tapp, Mr Bone the butcher and a GP with
whom you might not want an appointment – Doctor Coffin . .
.
LAUGHABLE LATIN
Lesley O’Mara and Rose Williams
1-84317-097-3 • £4.99 • PB • 198x129mm • 128pp
Witty Latin Phrases For All Occasions
A humorous guide to conversing in Latin with over 450 laughable
phrases to choose from including: Veni, vidi,
voravi – I came,
I saw,
I ate it all; Veni, vidi, verti – I came, I saw, I fled; and
Esne
ebrius iterum? – Are you drunk again?
THE WORLD’S STUPIDEST LAST WORDS
Chris Maynard and Rhian Mckay
1-84317-021-3 • £4.99 • PB • 178x111mm • 128pp
People say the stupidest things, especially, it would seem, when
they’ve no time to make up for it by saying something sensible.
This collection features scores of last gasps including, ‘Either
this wallpaper goes or I do’ (Oscar Wilde), ‘Well, gentlemen,
you are about to see a baked Appel’ (George Appel, sitting
in the electric chair), and ‘Die, my dear doctor? That’s
the last thing I shall do’ (Lord Palmerston).
THE WORLD’S STUPIDEST INSTRUCTIONS
Bryony Evens
1-84317-078-7 • £4.99 • PB • 178x111mm • 128pp
Whether they transpired as the result of inaccurate translation
or sheer stupidity, this collection of real product instructions
will leave you amused, bemused and baffled. On a tub of ice cream – ‘Caution:
ice cream is cold.’ On a bathroom heater – ‘This
product is not to be used in bathrooms.’ On a bottle of rum – ‘Open
bottle before drinking.’ On a microwave oven – ‘Do
not use for drying pets.’
THE WORLD’S STUPIDEST SPORTING SCREW-UPS
Andrew John and Stephen Blake
1-84317-039-6 • £4.99 • PB • 178x111mm • 128pp
Ever been chased by a stray dog during a marathon, or missed the
start of a race due to an ill-advised toilet break? Maybe you’ve
punched the referee during a boxing match or been knocked out of
a rally by an anteater?
If you haven’t, here’s where to
read about those who have!
THE WORLD’S STUPIDEST INVENTIONS
Adam Hart-Davis
1-84317-036-1 • £3.99 • PB • 178x111mm • 128pp
An hilarious compilation of some of the most pointless and dangerously
stupid inventions ever created. Not so much Eureka as Eurekaaargh!
THE WORLD’S STUPIDEST CHAT-UP LINES
1-84317-019-1 • £4.99 • PB • 178x111mm • 128pp • 2004
Packed with outrageous comments and classic opening lines, this
book is a tribute to the most ridiculous and hilarious come-ons ever
uttered. They may be stupid, they may be corny, they may be sleazy – but
then again, they may just work...
‘Hey, all those curves and me with no brakes!’
‘Do you believe in love at first sight or should I
walk by again?’
THE ULTIMATE INSULT
Compiled by Maria Leach
1-85479-288-1 • £5.99 • PB • 198x129mm • 248pp • 2002
CRICKET – IT’S A FUNNY OLD GAME
Comical comments from the world of cricket
Stephen Blake and Andrew John
1-84317-090-6 • £4.99 • PB • 178x111mm • 128pp • 2004
FOOTBALL – IT’S A FUNNY OLD GAME
Hilarious observations on the beautiful game
Stephen Blake and Andrew John
1-84317-091-4 • £4.99 • PB • 178x111mm • 128pp • 2004
ALL MEN ARE BASTARDS
Myra Venge
1-85479-387-X • £ 3.99 • PB • 178x111mm • 128pp
THE BOOK OF URBAN LEGENDS
Robin Reeve
1-85479-932-0 • £3.99 • PB • 178x111mm • 128pp
THE COMPLETE BOOK OF FARTING
Alec Bromcie
1-85479-440-X • £4.99 • PB • 144x111mm • 160pp
SPORTING SLIP-UPS AND GOALMOUTH GAFFES
Stephen Blake and Andrew John
1-85479-858-8 • £8.99 • HB • 198x129mm • 180pp
THE STUPIDEST THINGS EVER SAID
Ross and Kathryn Petras
1-85479-349-7 • £3.99 • PB • 178x111mm • 128pp
THE ULTIMATE BOOK OF FARTING
Alec Bromcie
1-85479-596-1 • £5.99 • HB • 135x135mm • 96pp
WICKED COCKNEY RHYMING SLANG
Betty Kirkpatrick
1-85479-386-1 • £3.99 • PB • 178x111mm • 128pp
WICKED GEORDIE ENGLISH
Diana Briscoe
1-85479-342-X • £3.99 • PB • 178x111mm • 128pp • 2003
WICKED SCOUSE ENGLISH
Diana Briscoe
1-84317-006-X • £3.99 • PB • 178x111mm • 128pp • 2003
YOUTH IS WASTED ON THE YOUNG
1-84317-048-5 • £8.99 • HB • 198x129mm • 180pp • 2003
