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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781984859624Author Maureen JohnsonFormat HardbackPage Count 128Imprint Ten Speed PressPublisher Potter/Ten Speed/Harmony/Rodale

What won't we try in our quest for perfect health, beauty, and the fountain of youth? Well, just imagine a time when doctors prescribed morphine for crying infants. When liquefied gold was touted as immortality in a glass. And when strychnine-yes, that...

Shortlisted for the 2022 Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction 'Utterly, utterly perfect and brilliant - I think it is, simply, a new classic, and the book every woman will be able to trust to make her happy when she picks it up' -...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781982122522Author Judith ViorstFormat HardbackPage Count 112Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 249gDimensions(mm) 193mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781684513727Author Babylon BeeFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Salem BooksPublisher Salem BooksWeight(grams) 236g

A TIME 'New Books You Should Read' A People magazine 'Book of the Week' A New York Times Editors' Choice With a foreword by Elizabeth Strout 'Electric: with wit, with rage, with grief, with the kind of prose that makes you both laugh and thrill...

You are cordially invited to your Happy Ever After...Emma Love is a matchmaker who believes in old fashioned courtship, over swiping left or right. She's inspired by Jane Austen, Bridgerton and a thousand and one perfect romance stories, where matches...

There are many cricket books, and they are all the same. 'Don't Tell Goochie', autobiographical insights of nights on the tiles in Delhi with Lambie and the boys; 'Fruit cake days', a celebrated humourist recalls 'ball' - related banter of yore; and...

C'mere to me ... Want to know how to win friends and influence people, Irish style? Here is a collection of words and phrases that showcase our famed gift of the gab, from fond greetings and terms of endearment to slaps on the back and typically...

A joyful collection of the most popular, provocative, and unforgettable essays from the New York Times 'Modern Love' column, featuring stories from the upcoming anthology series starring Tina Fey, Andy Garcia, Anne Hathaway, Catherine Keener, Dev Patel,...

A book in which Wilf Mannion rubs shoulders with The Sunderland Skinhead: recollections of Len Shakleton blight the lives of village shoppers: and the appointment of Kevin Keegan as manager of Newcastle is celebrated by a man in a leather stetson,...

Number Ten is the brilliantly funny political satire by Sue Townsend, bestselling author of the Adrian Mole series'Wickedly entertaining. There is a gem on nearly every page. Nothing escapes Townsend's withering pen. Satirical, witty, observant'...

**New York Times Bestseller**Comedic actor, producer, and writer Rainn Wilson, cofounder of the media company SoulPancake, explores the problem-solving benefits that spirituality gives us to create solutions for an increasingly challenging world.The...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781501183669Author Tucker CarlsonFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Free PressPublisher Free PressWeight(grams) 354gDimensions(mm) 221mm * 147mm * 23mm

Pronunciation governs our regional and social identity more powerfully than any other aspect of spoken language. No wonder, then, that it has attracted most attention from satirists. In this intriguing book, David Crystal shows how our feelings about...

Whoever heard of a fr-abbit? Or how about a ch-eep? Flip the flaps to come up with fun combinations that put a new twist on farm creatures - but watch out, these animals bite! With rhyming non-fiction text, fun facts, fantastic pop-ups and beautiful...

Once upon a time, a group of libertarians got together and hatched the Free Town Project, a plan to take over an American town and completely eliminate its government. In 2004, Grafton, NH, a barely populated settlement with one paved road, turned that...

READERS LOVE THIS BOOK AND YOU WILL TOO!'Bursting at the seams with charm and appeal!' 'Idyllic...a perfect beach read!''I can't wait to see what Ruth writes next!'Dreaming of your next holiday to escape the cold? Let Ruth Kelly transport you away to the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781398445529Author Sarah CiaciaFormat PaperbackPage Count 378Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers

A sex and relationship columnist bares it all in a series of essays-part memoir, part manifesto-that explore the author's coming-of-age and coming out as a bisexual man and move toward embracing and celebrating sex unencumbered by shame As a boy,...

Dan Lyons was Technology Editor at Newsweek Magazine for years, a magazine writer at the top of his profession. One Friday morning he received a phone call: his job no longer existed. Fifty years old and with a wife and two young kids, Dan was unemployed...

A rhyming illustrated humour book for mums who feel they're not doing a good job (and that's all mums, right?). Packed with scientifically true examples of terrible parents in the animal kingdom, to remind and reassure any mother that there are way worse...

A hilarious diary of married life with the sensible, no-nonsense man of all our dreams: Jurgen Klopp, from critically-acclaimed comedian and Twitter sensation Laura Lexx.Inspired by the viral tweet: 'If I ever met Jurgen Klopp I'd say "omg if we have a...

How old is the sloth? How do sloths have sex?How did a sloth save Dublin?The answers to these questions, and more, are found in this wonderfully entertaining celebration of the sloth. Walking readers through the sloth's evolutionary history - from the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781839402203Author Ruby FosterFormat HardbackPage Count 128Imprint ArcturusPublisher Arcturus Publishing Ltd

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERThis is a self-help book like no other. Because you are not helping yourself, James Acaster is helping you.In 2019, James quit all forms of social media - covering his phone in tar and driving it to a lock-up in Rhyl, before...

Rule #6: Free your mind and your legs will follow.THE VELOMINATI embrace cycling not as a pastime, but as a way of life, as obsessed with style, heritage, authenticity and wisdom as with performance.Rule #9: If you cycle in bad weather, it means you are...

After centuries of mystery, the mythical Magical Unicorn Society has published its official handbook. These learned lovers of unicorns have created a treasure chest of unicorn lore - the facts, the fiction, the where, why and what of these elusive beasts...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062641366Author Jamie BernsteinFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 363gDimensions(mm) 198mm...

'Slowly Down the Ganges' is seen as a vintage Newby masterpiece, alongside 'A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush' and 'Love and War in the Apennines'. Told with Newby's self-deprecating humour and wry attention to detail, this is a classic of the genre and a...

For anyone who needs a little comfort in their kitchen, Chrissy Tiegen's second collection of mouth-watering recipes is sure to soothe your soul with deliciously comforting food.After settling into parenthood, falling in love with different flavours, and...

'Will have you in stitches' The Irish Times'He's almost certainly not the hero you ordered, but he's the hero we need right now' Dave Gorman'I nearly stopped breathing twice as I was laughing so much. Glorious." Dom Joly'Probably the funniest thing I've...

'One of the greatest comic creations. I can't remember a more relentlessly funny book' Daily Mirror'My comfort read. The best diaries ever written - with apologies to Samuel Pepys, Bridget Jones and me' ADAM KAYThe fifth book in his hilarious diaries,...

Change your outlook. Win at work. Boss every Pass-Agg office situation ever with this hilarious survival guide.Spending most of our lives at work, it's no wonder tensions run high. We've all been cc'd (code for 'this isn't my problem'), we've all...

Google doesn't have the answer Dream big, plan smallWhen in doubt, HelveticaAssumption is the mother of all fuck upsStay curiousNo one knows what they're doing, neither should youIn this straight-talking guide to the real world of work, discover...

It's never too late for the adventure of a lifetime . . .Heather Winterbottom has worked side by side with her husband as GPs in their idyllic rural practice for over forty years. But as the time comes to hang up their stethoscopes, the Winterbottoms...

Spoken by over 700 million jabbering individuals, the English language has travelled to all corners of the globe - unfortunately, some of it has got a bit muddled along the way ...Lost in Translation: Misadventures in English Abroad affectionately...

'He played that so late, it was almost posthumous.' (John Arlott)For over fifty years, Test Match Special has provided the soundtrack to many cricket fans' lives - now this book collects its greatest hits. Here are all the witty sayings, bons mots,...

A Sunday Times bestseller, Where's My Happy Ending? asks the questions you've always wondered: What is 'happily ever after'? How do you make love last? Is there such a thing as 'the one'?Maybe you've just had a first date with 'the one', maybe you've...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781944211721Author Chris MonksFormat HardbackPage Count 679Imprint McSweeney's PublishingPublisher McSweeney's Publishing