Antiquities & Oddities

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  • Over 1000 hints and recipes for making your own wine and beers - an enjoyable hobby you can share with friends and make great savings in costs, too. There's sections on country wines, fruit wines, sparkling wines, malt syrup beers, fruit beers, ciders, liqueurs and even flavoured vinegars for cooking. All the information is here - ingredients, equipment and step by step instructions.
  • History as you've never learnt it before - from the invasion of Briton to Alfred the Cake, to Anne (A Dead Queen), The Merrie Monarch and WilliamandMary who were a pair of Oranges.  A lot of it reads like a Blackadder script with typical English humour. With comic illustrations by John Reynolds.
  • History as you've never learnt it before - from the invasion of Briton to Alfred the Cake, from Anne (A Dead Queen) to The Merrie Monarch and WilliamandMary who were a pair of Oranges.  A lot of it reads like a Blackadder script with typical English humour. With comic illustrations by John Reynolds.
  • Or...£500 for a second hand car. A humorous study of the trades and professions that make London tick. Here is cheerful, factual reporting on how the people who clip the publics train tickets or weigh their bananas think, talk, feel and swear about their business. Here are car salesmen, the Billingsgate Bobbin Boys, street-corner news vendors, cab drivers, musicians, Palace guardsmen and others who have added colour and spice to London life.
  • The man with no name rode into San Miguel and saw the chance to make himself a fistful of dollars. He set two rival families against each other and managed to survive the bloodshed unscathed, while each side paid his hire. Then a massive shipment of Mexican gold arrived and violence exploded in the streets, the man with no name - the stranger, the Americano - came near to losing his life; that was when he ceased to be dangerous and became lethal...Cover art shows representation of Clint Eastwood as the Stranger in the 1964 film of the same name.
  • Seven more rounds of sparring, as Fletch and his fellow cons of Slade nick continue their struggle against the authority of Messrws MacKay and Barrowclough.  Cover features the late great Ronnie Barker as Fletch.
  • The narrative of a voyage around the world in a Windjammer in 1919. This is a vintage glimpse into the sea-faring lifestyle of times past with an authentic account of a life lived at sea; a true and spirited account of a phase of sea-life now long past, fascinating from the very vividness and sincerity of its telling. Retold with the lucidity and fondness that can only belong to one who has lived it and loved it, A Gipsy of the Horn - Life in a Deep-Sea Sailing Ship is highly recommended for readers with an interest in the history and development of sailing. With beautiful pen and ink drawings by N.A.D. Wallis.
  • In 404 B.C., the Spartans demolished the famous Long Walls of Athens, signalling the complete victory of the city of Lycurgus and the subordination of all Greece to the Spartan interest. Yet within forty years, the pride of Sparta had been humbled, their glory gone for ever.  Xenophon lived through this time; despite being Athenian he was intimate with some of the most influential people in Sparta, including King Agesilaus. Here is the on-the-spot documentation of the last years of the independent cities of Hellas, by someone who saw it all.  Translated by Rex Warner. https://cosmiccauldronbooks.com.au/p/imperial-caesar-rex-warner/

  • Former psychiatric nurse turned comedienne Jo Brand, best known here for her appearances on QI and Getting On, does not hold back on her opinions of men and the balls-up they've made of the world. No-one escapes - From Henry VIII to Mao Zedong to Elvis Presley, everyone gets equal roasting. On Sid Vicious: They had their own special language, which involved the use of phrases like, 'F*** off, you tosser,' particularly if they liked someone...On Martin Luther: Being declared a heretic in those days wasn't a barrel of laughs - it didn't take much for you to be playing the starring kebab role. On Rasputin: ...hair greasy enough to fry an egg on, eyes that would have been at home in Marty Feldman's face and a tunic that could make it back to Siberia on its own...'  There's plenty of Jo Brand's particular brand of  irreverent wryness to shock you into laughs.