The Little Princess hates having her hair combed. There are always tangles & it always hurts! When the King agrees to put her in charge of combing, she makes sure that everyone in the castle has beautifully combed hair, but she leaves her own until last...with disastrous consequences. ...

The Little Princess doesn't want to go to hospital, & does everything she can to avoid it. But when she is finally forced to go, she finds that she really rather likes it. Back home again, she decides she wants to go back. After all, they treat her like a princess in there! ...

Acclaimed Hollywood filmwriter & director Nora Ephron turns her sharp powers of observation back onto herself in these autobiographical essays as she examines the indignities of ageing for the Baby Boom generation. Filled with wickedly witty autobiographical pieces like 'I Hate My Handbag', ' Blind as a Bat' & ' What I Wish I'd Known', this book offers the consolation that no matter how much your neck sags, your boobs droop, your skin wrinkles & your children don't appreciate you, someone has been there before you.

Nora Ephron captrues the essence of what it means to be a grumpy old woman, in a laugh-out-loud funny, frank & unexpectedly moving book that will be an irresistible treat for any woman who reads it.

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Originally intended to be a simple Christmas humour book, I Fought The Law ended up becoming something rather different. The premise was simple enough. Dan was going to spend a year trying to break as many stupid old laws as he could find, for your amusement. You see there are loads of ridiculous laws on the statute book...

It is still illegal to beat a carpet in the Metropolitan Police District, to take possession of a beached whale or to get within a hundred yards of the Queen without wearing socks. The list goes on & on. But in the process of researching these silly old laws Dan found a glut of stupid legislation that was equally ridiculous, but these laws had one thing in common
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When Dan Kieran discovered that there are loads of ridiculous, out-dated laws on the statute book, he decided to break as many as he could for his own amusement. You see, it is still illegal to shoot a Welshman in Chester with a bow & arrow before midnight, but not after, or take possession of a beached whale.

But Dan's satirical crime spree cme to a sudden halt when he unearthed a glut of bizarre & stupid legislation, all passed by our current government.

Follow Dan as he meets & unlikely protestor called Dorothy who lives on the roof of a bus station; find out why a group of pensioners let off a stink bomb in a court of law
- or why one woman got an ASBO for being naked in her own home.

Whether it's fighting to protect our environment, our freedom, or the right to live in an unconventional way, I Fought the Law is a celebration of the true British spirit
- & a call to arms to all those for whom enough is enough!







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After the success of the bestselling I Can Has Cheezburger? A Lol Colleckshun, the loldogs wanted their share of the pie. ...

Honor Brown cannot find a good word to say about her school despite much prompting. She insists that her teacher is a warty toad, the water tray has killer sharks in it, & even her friends are loathsome. But when the time comes to move on to ' Big School', she sits in the corner & sobs! Maybe it wasn't so bad after all! ...