Quirky Reference
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Golf's Strangest Rounds
Price:£6.99Bogeys and shanking, plus fours and six irons, the alleged etiquette of caddies - all you need to know about the heaven and hell of golf is in this unique book.
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Cricket's Strangest Matches
Price:£8.99A fascinating collection of true stories about cricket's oddest matches - some bizarre, some astonishing and some just downright hilarious. Taken from the annals of the games history, Cricket's Strangest Matches is a must for all cricket enthusiasts. Learn More -
Fishing's Strangest Days
Price:£6.99This fascinating volume gathers together choice gems and bizarre fishing facts from all over the world. Consider the Oxford scientist who in 1910 discovered the marvellous life-giving properties of brandy to fish who had otherwise gasped their last. Learn More -
Railways' Strangest Journeys
Price:£8.99A fascinating collection of entertaining stories from as far afield as Europe, Indian and America revealing unusual railway journeys across the centuries.
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Classic Rugby Clangers
Price:£6.99This hilarious collection of stories taken from over 130 years of rugby history recounts some of the moments their perpetrators would rather forget. Learn More -
Right Royal Remarks
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Everyone makes remarks but many of them sink without a trace. Minor celebrities find their remarks slightly longer-lasting, in newspapers and magazines, while the truly famous have their remarks retained, for better or for worse, in books and on film. Learn More -
Royalty's Strangest Characters
Price:£6.99Just as the monarchy has been hereditary in many countries, so insanity has been hereditary in many monarchs. 'Royalty's Strangest Characters' recalls over 2000 years of crazy kings and potty potentates, including such infamous characters as Caligula, Vlad the Impaler and George III. Learn More -
Gallop Your Maggot
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English has plenty of terms for sexual organs and acts, the trouble is, we've forgotten some of the best ones. This book will help us reclaim our heritage. Learn More -
Good Old-Fashioned Advice
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Do you know how to remove chewing gum from your sofa or protect yourself from bubonic plague? Where is the best place to rub a green onion? What does it mean for the weather if a bat lands on your head and refuses to fly away?'Good Old-fashioned Advice' is an eccentric mixture of folklore, old wives' tales and time-honoured advice. Learn More -
Television's Strangest Moments
Price:£8.99Ever since John Logie Baird first publicly demonstrated this now all-pervasive medium in his small Soho laboratory, the history of television has been littered with remarkable but true tales of the unexpected. Learn More


