Quirky Reference
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Classical Music's Strangest Concerts and Characters
Price:£6.99Extracted from five hundred years of musical history, this is a fascinating collection of stories about classical music's most unusual concerts and characters. Learn More -
The Parking Ticket Awards
Price:£6.99This book is enough to drive you parking mad. It's bad enough to return to your parked car to find a ticket stuck on your car windscreen. Learn More -
The Modern Maiden's Handbook
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The world is full of books and magazines about how to live your life and how to improve it that never quite deliver. Nina de la Mer's mission is to tell it like it is to all women who consider themselves modern maidens. Her brilliant, savvy guide to living in the real world is a refreshing treat. Learn More -
Thick Villains
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The perfect murder. The ideal getaway. The criminal mastermind. If you're a fan of TV dramas and detective novels, you might be under the impression that the underworld is stuffed with geniuses and Mensa members, PC Plod forever plodding two steps behind the latest Moriarty. Learn More -
Je T'aime
Price:£7.99Just as a rose would smell as sweet by any other name, so it is with love. Love is powerful, enduring, and magical in any language. Learn More -
Law's Strangest Cases
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Despite how unbelievable the stories locked up within may seem, Law’s Strangest Cases promises to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth when it comes to the weird and ludicrous cases of bonkers litigation. Award-winning author Peter Seddon gives life to over five centuries of legal calamities that would turn any sober judge to drinking.
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London's Strangest Tales
Price:£6.99Following in the bestselling steps of theStrangest... series, London is now given the Strangest treatment. This fascinating volume is packed with amazing things you didn't know about the capital, such as the fact that it's still forbidden to run, carry an umbrella or whistle in Burlington Arcade. Learn More -
The Ants Are My Friends
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“A very amusing book. Or, possibly, an evilly musing buck” - Simon Hoggart Linguistic mistakes. We all make them. Learn More -
The Olympics' Strangest Moments
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The Olympics' Strangest Moments recounts the bizarre, controversial, heroic and plain unlucky from the first modern games in 1896 to the return of the games to their birthplace in Athens in 2004.
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101 Sports Not to Try
Price:£9.99Following on from 101 Places Not To Visit - the tour guide that told you where not to go on vacation - comes a guide on how not to spend your free time. 101 Sports Not To Try is written with exactly the same deadpan wit as its predecessor and details a range of wacky sports from around the world that will have you arrested or in hospital, or both. Learn More


