For too long Phaic Tan has been closed off to the outside world, a country visited each year by just a handful of hardy travellers, aid agency workers and hostage negotiators. Quadrille Publishing, in association with Jetlag Travel Guides, are proud to present the introduction to this undiscovered jewel.
Offers the essential DIY tips of the world's greatest writers. This book provides hints such as how to: replace a roof tile; remedy a squeaking floor board; remove a carpet stain and bleed a radiator, by writers, including Bronte, Shakespeare, Duras, Salinger and Paul Auster.
Contains over 250 entries covering the globe, and is filled with maps, graphs, illustrations of notable figures and famous residents, and a quiz to test readers knowledge of the flags of West African nations. This atlas provides questionable historical and geographical information.
A guide to using denial to make your life happier and successful. It details the author's personal journey to attain happiness, his failure to achieve it, and how he learned that denial is the most important way to deal with the world around us. It helps you learn to deny what you don't like and get away with it.
Often described as 'the Venice of Central America', the sun-drenched isle of San Sombrero has something for everyone - music-lovers, eco-tourist, history buffs and others. This book provides information on the place, from the frenetic nightlife of its capital Cucaracha City, to the guaranteed solitude of a west coast beach during sea snake season.
Heffa Lump is a self-centred seventeen-year-old who needs to grow up and get a life. Unfortunately, she's distracted from her attempts to leave adolescence behind when she meets Teddy Kelledy - an impossibly gorgeous boy who eats rare meat, is super-strong, and never goes out in daylight. Could he - just maybe - be a vampire?
Heffa Lump is a typical, pale and interesting seventeen-year-old, who doubts that anyone will ever see her true beauty. But then she moves to Spatula and meets Teddy Kelledy, an impossibly gorgeous boy who eats rare meat and who is super-strong and never goes out in sunlight. Could he just maybe be a vampire?
Scare young children and intimidate their parents when you take the humble nursery rhyme and transform it into a display of linguistic acrobatics. Here are 100 nursery rhymes and their verbose translations to memorise and regurigitate at all children's parties.
Ian Carpenter was a 34-year-old property manager in Basildon when he found himself made redundant. He was looking at the recruitment pullout of the "Guardian" newspaper, and wondered: why don't I apply for every job here? So that's what he did, and along the way broadened his scope by applying to be the English football manager.
Narrating the Devil's random musings on key dates through history, this title reveals Satan's part in such things as the Fall; musical moments at the crossroads; the invention of the tetrapak, making work for idle hands; small print; Faust; decorating hell circle by circle; the joy of getting all the best tunes; and, lawyers.
Focuses on 'Playground Games' - otherwise known as Playground Fighting. This work explains the proud history of playground fighting, taking the reader through the basics - the kit, the rules, the tactics, the training, and the moves (including the Highland Headbutt and the DNL - Deadly Nipple Lock), so that you can reach the top of your game.
Presents a Howard Zinn-like real history of the United States and the role its suppressed zombie minority has played in major events. From indigenous cave paintings of the walking dead to the fossilized remains of chewed-open skulls, this title shows that zombies were active in the Americas long before the first Europeans arrived.
Focusses on companies ranging from Kellogg's and Ryvita to Mars, Heinz and Cadbury. This book tackles things from quality and pricing to taste and advertising campaigns, quizzing companies like Ferrero about why it's impossible to 'feel the nuts' in Nutella spread 'despite going through it with a fine tooth comb'.
A comic anthology of letters that demonstrates how one man bamboozled and exasperated over forty international airlines, from British Airways to Air Malta. It tackles everything from the common bugbears of excess baggage charges and duplicitous exchange rates to the surreal predicament of how to fly an elephant back from India.
Features a fake columnist answering questions from insanely determined women, telling them how to land the man of their dreams. Using tips, charts and tongue-in-cheek recommendations, this book presents an agony aunt taking on the most determined women who are in pursuit of the most undetermined men.
Ask yourself: Are you ready for an alien invasion? When it happens, will you find yourself helpless to resist? This book teaches readers the skills they need to battle hostile visitors from outer space, covering things from escape strategies to improvised weaponry.
Stun your friends into silence as you take the humble proverb and transform it into a display of linguistic acrobatics. Here are 100 simple proverbs and their verbose translations for you to memorize and regurgitate at dinner parties and social gatherings.
Belle Goose falls in love with the mysterious and sparkly Edwart Mullen. Belle arrives in Switchblade, Oregon looking for adventure, or at least an undead classmate. She soon discovers Edwart, a super-hot computer nerd with zero interest in girls. After witnessing a number of strange events - Edwart leaves his hash browns untouched at lunch.
Takes you through a multitude of scenarios, including: how to keep safe when all power is lost and all hell breaks loose; and, how to get drinkable water. This book shows how to keep cool and/or warm; what to eat to stay alive; useful survival equipment; and, where to live to minimize the impact of climate change.
Hilarious collection of letters written by the deranged but loveable Morello family to the great and the good of the country (and beyond) and the amazing genuine replies - from Heads of State, prime ministers, archbishops, lords, ambassadors, cabinet ministers, captains of industry, TV stars and celebrities.
Introduces the reader to the British character as seen through the eyes of the French. This book features: "Dans La Rue", an eye-spy parody set on the British high street; "Tits of the Brits", a poem concerning the large British bust vs the petite French cup; "Stolen French", a guide to words the British have stolen from the French; and, more.
Nigel Mullet, the unfortunate and bungling fifteen-year-old vampire, is back! But this time he not only has to deal with his daily trials of bad skin, an annoying little sister, and the worry of his fangs popping out at inopportune moments. Now he's got real problems to get his teeth into.
Offers an escape from the overwhelming terror that can come when facing the end of the world. This title explores the end times and world monetary collapse with insights that are undaunted by their self-contradictions, witticism that never lets up, and the promise of multi-level marketing.
Blake the mongrel part of a bigger family - the owner now has a baby - finds himself dealing with the difficulties of fatherhood himself, thanks to the antics of his own step-puppy. The neighbourhood troop of trusty canine friends also find themselves with a new challenge in the shape of a damsel in distress.
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A guide to leaving Western life behind and becoming a ninja without formal training. It shows us how becoming a ninja warrior is easy. It discusses the material necessary for the ninja rebirth, including the 'Eight-blade Path'. It covers ninja wear, weapons, movements and strikes, espionage, language, sex, sushi, and karaoke.
A detective-cum-spy, Rabbit the dog, tracks down his enemies. Extraordinary ingenuity and stealth assist him in his task of rooting out evil, pursuing it doggedly and resolving to rid the world of its blight. He is persistent. He is cunning. He is undaunted. He also appears rather sheepish.
Heffa Lump is still living at home in Spatula having graduated from the Spatula Academy of Fictional Excellence, and is looking forward to a life of notoriety as the girlfriend of the fabulously wealthy vampire Teddy Kelledy. Still desperate for fame, Heffa considers entering Undead's Got Talent, judged in part by the fearsome Vindicti.
Nigel Mullet was transformed into a vampire when he was still a teenager, and will remain this age forever. Unfortunately, Nigel became a vampire at the awkward age of 15, and must spend eternity coping with acne, and an ineptitude with girls. This title chronicles his desperate attempts to be noticed by the love of his life, Chloe Sparrow.
Blake is a loveable mongrel just trying to lead a happy life; he loves his owner, fiercely defends his territory against interlopers, does his best to avoid the frequently threatened neutering and spends a lot of his time either scooting across the carpet or chasing local tail. This work is suitable for a wide range of readers and dog lovers.
Naughtily hilarious parodies of children's stories, as read on Terry Wogan's breakfast show. For the last four years, 8 million listeners to BBC Radio 2's Wake Up To Wogan have been beguiled and bewitched by the naughty but nice adventures of John and his wife Janet. In the style of children's stories of yesteryear, John gets up to all sorts. Then he tells Janet all about his day, by which time every perfectly innocent big end, back passage and stiff one acquires a whole new meaning...
Delving into a world where the living dead really do walk the earth, this title turns the myth of zombies into a frightening - and hilarious - reality. It suggests that the future human race integrate themselves with zombies, simply accepting the inevitable loss of life in the long run.
Birds do it, bees do it. And guess what - cookies do it, too. In fact, never have a pair of gingerbread cookies looked so pleased. Yes, the "Karma Sutra" meets the "Joy of Cooking". Featuring an unabashed gingerbread couple, who are photographed in unpinching full colour, the COOKIE SUTRA is a recipe for pleasure.
A life planner, from the bestselling authors of "This Diary Will Change Your Life". From your birth to your midlife crisis, from losing your virginity to planning the cryogenic freezing of your own body, this book tells you how to lead the hysterical life you so richly deserve.
Blake is the mongrel part of a bigger family - the owner now has a baby - and finds himself dealing with the difficulties of fatherhood himself, thanks to the antics of his own step-puppy. The neighbourhood troop of trusty canine friends also find themselves with a new challenge in the shape of a damsel in distress.
Presents the classic satirical history of New York. Spanning the creation of the world to the end of the 'Dutch Dynasty', this book examines the discovery of New York, the first settlements of the Dutch, the reign of Peter Stuyvesant, the gallant achievements of Peter the Headstrong, and other real and imagined moments in the history of this city.
Provides a satirical look at race relations that is almost too close for comfort. This book gives renters and rentals advice and tips on technique. Reframing stories, techniques, requests, and responses, tips are provided in step-by-step outlines for renters to get the most for their money, and how rentals can become successful and wealthy.
Jack Schitt is a fictional character. He always wanted to be Phillip Marlowe but could never quite muster the hard drinking, lacked the physical stature (5' 6" in his cubans) and stumbled over the wisecracking patter. But he could do all the detective work that small-town Wisconsin could throw at him such as spying on errant husbands.
Pip Bin ventures through Victorian Britain in constant battle with his evil and badly named ex-guardian Mr Gently Benevolent. On the way he builds a national railway network, blows up parliament, joins an East End gang, smokes a lot of opium, gets married twice and takes on the might of the Martian army.
'Fuller's Dictionary of Daffynitions' is THE lexicon for all students of wordplay... an Aladdin's cave of double entendre and innuendo; an encyclopaedia of equivoque; an arsenal of ammunition for exponents of bon mots, burlesque and badinage... a veritable punsters' paradise.
Describes the activities that combine humor with sex acts. This book delivers a parody of run-of-the-mill sex books. It explains how to do the un-doable and includes illustrations depicting each act's proper positioning and execution. It provides coverage that ranges from the shocking and obscene to the sadistic.
Have you ever been terrified by a scary horror film? Laughed yourself silly at an amusing romantic comedy? Now imagine those familiar scenes starring everyone's favourite garden sprite - gnomes! Packed with famous cinematic scenes recreated by garden gnomes, this book is guaranteed to raise a smile with anyone who picks it up.
Offers a comic spoof of the consumer-product catalogues. This title is illustrated throughout in the shape and style of catalogues that offer you the chance to buy machines that stamp your initials onto golf balls or allow you to warm you slippers electronically before putting them on.
With more personality than most people have to spare, this title features the author's tiny yellow chickens that negotiate the tricky modern world, filled with three-headed blind dates, menacing KFCs, playground popularity battles and annoyingly crowded yoga classes.
This is a unique book conveying a vivid description complete with detailed scorecards of a series of matches that have never in fact taken place. The vaults of imagination are plumbed to allow anyone who has ever existed, real or fictional, to reveal themselves under the singular aegis of the game of cricket.