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And woe - there was famine upon the land. No matter where you looked, it was fmine. If you lifted up a chair, there it was. If you looked under a bed, there it was... Let's face it, by the time Spike Milligan got through with anything it's never going to be the same! One more sample, then: The Lord quieted Moses with a thunder bolt and said: 'Ye shall take a wife in her virginity.' Moses said, 'That'll take a lot of finding...' -
In this volume: The Crimson Shawl, Florence Bone; The Work Of The S.P.M., Mary Oldfield; The Quicksand, Philippa Francklyn; Summer Voices, Katharine Tynan; The Island Of Adventure, Winifred Darch; The Influence Of Anne and A Horrible Fix, Dorita Fairlie Bruce; The Shadow Of The Past, A.G. Hobart-Hampden; The Bogle, Margaret Baker; The Little Shepherd Of The Stars, Thora Stowell; The Lady In The Yellow Gown, Elinor G. Brent-Dyer; The Tide, Lilian Holmes; The Hat That Was Almost A Tragedy, Agnes Adams; The Bronze Man, Brenda Girvin; Under Canvas, M.C. Carey; Latymer And Barchester, Margaret Chilton; Alone In The Hills, G.E. Scott; The Princess Does Not Dance, M.E.F. Irwin; The King Of Somewhere, S.M. Hills; Two Grey Pigeons, Alice Massie; Then And Now, Vernon Rendall; The Spanish Innkeeper, S.M. Hills. Colour plates and line drawing illustrations. -
Red - or Green? Shirley Grey; A Bit Of History, D. Dike; The Thing That Mattered, E.L. Haverfield; Improve Your Tennis, Jane Thornicroft; Letitia's Taxi Cab and Miss Connington In Town, Alice Massie; The Chinese Vase, Brenda Girvin; The Three Belpennys, Elizabeth Whitely; The Gargoyle and An Adventure In The Roussillon, S.M. Hills; Caroline And The Count, Jocelyn Oliver; The Pewter Candlestick, Dorothea Moore; S.O.S., Thura Lifford; Gillian's Choice, Pamela Tynan Hickson; Cricket For Girls, Marjorie Pollard; The Strange Sedan, M.A. Peart; It Flowered For Me Alone, Thora Stowell; The Saving Of The Undine, Beryl Irving; The Smugglers Of Portincross, Dorita Fairlie Bruce. -
In this volume: All Fools' Day: Dorita Fairlie Bruce; A Painful Prep, Lucy Scott; A Good Turn, Grace Mary Golden; The Domestic Economy Class, Peggy Judge; The Tale Of A Trail, Jessie McAlpine; The Innocent Sinner, Dora M. Hardisty; White Heather and Second Fiddle, Shirley Grey; Pamela's Pound, Gunby Hadath; Mount Warning, by Castleden Dove; The White Rabbit At School, Winifred Darch; Prue Goes Shopping, Barbara E. Todd; The Play's The Thing, Agnes Frome; The Price Of Attainment, Agnes Adams; A Shooting Star, E.M. de Foubert; Puck's Performance, G.M. Faulding; The Ragging Of Rachel, Christine Chaundler. Illustrated with colour plates and black and white line drawings. -
In this volume: The Competition, Evelyn Simms; Kept In, J. Brown; Jill's French Prose, Winifred Darch; Mind And Matter, Jocelyn Oliver; Greta The Greater, Barbara Todd; A Delicate Situation In The Fourth Remove, Josephine Elder; Those Twins, Jessie McAlpine; For Diana's Sake and Roman Remains, Grace Mary Golden; Bats In The Belfry, Elizabeth Woodhouse; The Final Score, Ierne L. Plunket; The School For Scandal, Dorita Fairlie Bruce; Caroline And The Princess, Jocelyn Oliver; The Blunder, Shirley Grey; The Noble Earl, Alice Massie; The Scraps Of Paper, Margaret Baines Reed; Pamela's Tenderfoot, Mary Oldfield; The Breaking Up, Mrs Elizabeth Turner -
The Bondman: Hall Caine
$10.00First published in the late 1890s, this is the tale of half-brothers Michael and Jason. Jason is sworn to avenge the wrongs done to their father; Michael is sworn to rectify them. The story moves from the Isle of Man to Iceland. On the way the half brothers encounter love, personal upheaval, political revolutions and natural disasters. This is not only a literal journey - it is also a spiritual journey. -
Circa 1940s-50s, an annual for teenage girls featuring short stories, nature articles, activities and craft, poetry and more. Contributors include: Winifred Bear, Mary Lillian Royce, V.F. Wells, Leonora Fry, Nancy Martin and more. Illustrated by W. Spence and others. -
Everything you thought you knew is wrong! Such as..Henry VIII did NOT have six wives; Everest is NOT the world's tallest mountain; ALexander Graham Bell did NOT invent the telephone; and Strawberries, raspberries and blackberries are NOT berries. Great potential for trivia nights. -
This book contains the sort of things one might expect to come up on QI...Such as... the worst computer ever invented, the shortest-lived newspaper, the least successful round the world cyclist and the shortest period of marital bliss. Great fun to dip into at random. -
The team behind the The Book of General Ignorance turns conventional biography on its head. Following their Herculean - or is it Sisyphean?- efforts to save the living from ignorance, the two wittiest Johns in the English language turn their attention to the dead. As the authors themselves say, “The first thing that strikes you about the Dead is just how many of them there are.” Helpfully, Lloyd and Mitchinson have employed a simple but ruthless criterion for inclusion: the dead person has to be interesting. Here, then, is a dictionary of the dead, an encyclopedia of the embalmed. Ludicrous in scope, whimsical in its arrangement, this wildly entertaining tome presents pithy and provocative biographies of the no-longer-living from the famous to the undeservedly and - until now - permanently obscure. Spades in hand, Lloyd and Mitchinson have dug up everything embarrassing, fascinating and downright weird about their subjects’ lives and added their own uniquely irreverent observations. Organized by capricious categories such as dead people who died virgins, who kept pet monkeys, who lost limbs, those whose corpses refused to stay put - the dearly departed, from the inventor of the stove to a cross-dressing, bear-baiting female gangster finally receive the epitaphs they truly deserve. Discover: Why Freud had a lifelong fear of trains; the one thing that really made Isaac Newton laugh; how Catherine the Great really died (no horse was involved) and much more. -
Subtitle: Being Two Hundred Pictures of the English Inn from the Earliest Times to the Coming of the Railway Hotel. Somewhat misleading - this is not a book of two hundred pictures, but two hundred observations on the history of the English inn and its role in society, travel, festivals, portentous solemnity, a place of repose...The observations come from a fantastic diversity of names: John Bunyan, Samuel Pepys, Daniel Defoe, James Boswell, Disraeli, Dickens, Washington Irving, Thomas de Quincey, Shakespeare, Sir Walter Scott, 'George Eliot', Chaucer, Anthony Trollope and many more. The theme of the observations is as diverse as the contributors: from the 'gallant' in the tavern to the arranging of duels; from gluttons to gourmands; from highwaymen to harridans; from cockroaches to cleanliness and - of course - hosts and hostesses. -
Australian character poetry from the late 1800s and early 1900s. -
Compiled for Methuen in the early 1970s by the young Monty Python team at the height of their surreal powers and was published on the heels of the improbable success of the Monty Python's Flying Circus television series. A surreal delight, the Papperbok was a testing ground for ideas equally as fresh and funny as the Flying Circus material. It is full of colorful and rude illustrations by Terry Gilliam, oddball instruction sheets and booklets, schoolboy stories of adventure and mischief, misleading horoscopes, informative and thrilling features-such as Hamster: A Warning; The Python Book of Etiquette and The London Casebook of Detective Ren Descartes, zany competitions, fake editorials, spurious film reviews and some of the oddest miscellany ever pressed between the pages of a book. A must for any sincere Python fan who has ever done a Silly Walk or has practised the Art Of Not Being Seen. -
Born Juliana Horatia Gatty in Yorkshire, 1841, Mrs Ewing's first successful story was The Brownies. Fifty years later, Sir Robert Baden-Powell adopted the name for the junior branch of the Girl Guide Movement. Even though these stories were written in the Victorian age, when life was very different, they address child behaviour issues that still exist: laziness, self-entitlement and taking things for granted. In this volume: The Brownies; The Land Of Lost Toys; Three Christmas Trees; An Idyll Of The Wood; Christmas Crackers; Amelia And The Dwarfs. With four colour plate illustrations by E.H. Shephard. -
Margery and Ian voyage to the queer land of Baste in a silver bubble. There they undertake marvellous adventures brought about by the theft of the Frost Fire and encounter other wonders such as the Timeless Stone. There's fabulous characters: Tiel Quintillian of the leaf-green beard, Miles Pennycook and his sweetheart Biddy Bluebell; the gallant Captain Tod (gallant, nut noisy); Mr Ned Kelly, young Harry Dale, the drover, the Brooding Brolga, the Mocking Lyre Bird and the Ancient One of How Many Years living in his Gibba-gunyah. Even Cobb and Co find a place...a wondrous and scarce Australian fantasy story to rank with Norman Lindsay's The Magic Pudding. Illustrated by R.W. Coulter. -
Lietenant Garrett Byrne has just recently been promoted to take command of a squad of black soldiers. Irish-born and no-nonsense, he clashes frequently with his second-in-command, and struggles with his feelings over being placed in charge of such a squad. His troop is assigned the duty of guiding and protecting a band of reservation Comanches who want to hunt buffalo. Along the way, they encounter hide hunters, a white homestead family with a mother and two small children, and a band of Indian-hunting Texas Rangers. It's a volatile mix was the journey becomes a grim tale of chase and survival amid racial hatred and violence.
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Captain Albert Ebbs - M.B.E - expecting to be fired from his job captaining Pole Star company's line freighter the Martin Luther for some unvarnished speaking, is pleasantly surprised to find himself promoted to Captain of the luxury passenger liner Charlemagne. This being a long-held dream since his cadet days, he is confident of handling his duties - after all, all ships float on water, contain machinery and sleep and feed people. It's only the people who differ...and he finds out how very much they do differ! Now he must host cocktail parties, dance with lady passengers, cope with amorous widows, deal with a Chief Officer who's a serial womaniser and a Purser making money on the side by stealing ships supplies - and if all that weren't enough, a lot of unruly children and a crusty British Army officer who claims to know the Chairman of the Board. Subtle and sly British humor. -
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The Challenge Of The North: Ion Idriess
$95.00$80.00Houses under the Barrier Reef sea, a fish trap hundreds of miles wide across the Gulf of Carpentaria, power from our rugged, daunting Kimberley coast, sea-beef for the world's growing population...Pipe dream or reality? Dreamer - or prophet? First published in 1969, this is Idriess' lifetime of observation of the seas and shores north of Capricorn, magnified to a vision of the potential of Australia's tropical animal, plant and fish life, and of the earth's unrevealed and untapped wealth. Idriess saw the Continental Shelf as a vast reserve of food and riches that, with careful conservation, outlast the mineral rushes and exploitation of the land. He forecast what needed to be done to protect these resources and how to use them to advantage; he warned of the danger of creating a desert beneath the sea and of the devastation of the land resulting from thoughtless destruction of the Great Barrier Reef. Even as far back as 1969, Idriess saw the need for a demand for action on political, conservation and economic levels. -
A real treasure chest of old-fashioned favorite tales; complete and unabridged except for those marked *. The Heroes, Charles Kingsley; Horatius, Lord Macaulay; The History Of The Seven Families of the Lake Pipple-Popple, The Jumblies, The Pobble Who Has No Toes and The Two Old Bachelors (all illustrated), Edward Lear; The Rose And The Ring (illustrated), W.M. Thackery; The Travels of Baron Munchausen* and Greedy Richard, Jane Taylor; The Watchfulness Of Papa, Jane and Anne Taylor; Matilda, Who Told Lies and Franklin Hyde, Who Caroused In The Dirt and Was Corrected By His Uncle (illustrated), Hilaire Belloc; John Gilpin, William Cowper; The Jackdaw Of Rhiems, R.H. Barham; Orpheus and Eurydice, Gilbert Abbot A'Beckett; The Pied Piper of Hamelin, Robert Browning; The Fairies, William Allingham; Goblin Market, Christina Rossetti; The Snow Queen, Hans Andersen; The Brave Little Tailor, Grimm; The Golden Branch, Countess D'Aulnoy; Granny's Wonderful Chair, Frances Browne; A Mid-Summer Night's Dream (slightly adapted), William Shakespeare; Aesop's Fables (Selections); An Elegy On The Glory Of Her Sex, Madam Mary Blaize, Oliver Goldsmith; Old Saws; Wise Sayings; The Story Of the Three Calendars, Sons Of Kings And Of The Five Ladies Of Baghdad, (adapted) from The Arabian Nights; Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Lewis Carroll; Chink: The Development Of A Pup, Ernest Thompson Seton; Black Beauty, Anna Sewell, The Pavilion On The Links, R.L. Stevenson. CAUTION! These tales would probably be regarded as unsuitable for children today so adults please read first! -
Humankind has developed three ways of recording its existence: History, folklore and - yarn. History is what really happened; folklore is what people believe happened; and yarns don't care what really happened - they're the way of keeping it all interesting! Mike Hayes - winner of the World Yarn-Spinning Championships, 1991 - embarked on a personal crusade to collect and record as many contemporary Australian yarns as possible. And no-one can tell a yarn like an Aussie. Not for the politically correct or easily offended!
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Dickens wrote five Christmas Books in all, the first and best known being A Christmas Carol. The Cricket On The Hearth is third in the series but probably the second favourite in line. The Cricket of the title is a barometer of life at the home of John Peerybingle and his much younger wife, Dot. When things go well, the cricket on the hearth chirps; it is silent when there is sorrow. Tackleton, a jealous old man, poisons John's mind about Dot. The cricket, a creature long credited in many cultures with supernatural abilities, has his work cut out for him to detoxify good John's mind of the horrible suspicions the repulsive old Tackleton has sown. Illustrated by Gordon Robinson. -
There was a person sitting on the kitchen table - a person about eighteen inches tall - looking for all the world like a large, fat cucumber. And it was talking...Perhaps there's nothing unusual about a cucumber. But a cucumber that talks, that suddenly appears in the kitchen and starts throwing its weight around (about being a KING cucumber)...Then to discover it's planning revenge on rebellious cucumber subjects (living in OUR basement...) and it expects us to lend a hand in the massacre...It's enough to disrupt any family. And especially ours! A children's book? Maybe - but have a look and seeing what the grown-ups on Goodreads remember about it! Translated by Anthea Bell. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/252879.The_Cucumber_King?from_search=true&from_srp=true&qid=lB0Ziy5MGJ&rank=1 -
There would appear to be two editions of this book; the other is published as The Havesome Book of Nutty Records. The Daffodil edition seems to be much rarer and is probably a joke reference to Daffodil brand Peanuts and Peanut Butter. Contains such fun as phone box and lavatory cramming, wheelbarrow races, underwater records, coin balancing, competitive shovelling, non-stop jiving, distance for pushing a peanut with the nose and a great many more 'nutty' record-breaking attempts. -
Honouring those who continue to improve our gene pool by removing themselves in sublimely idiotic ways, such as: the woman caught in an American national park, smearing honey all over her small son's face so she could get a photo of a bear licking it off; the man who decided to add a plastic bag to his collection of solo sex toys, and who was found with the plastic bag over his head, the vacuum cleaner still running and himself being very very dead; and the two allegedly experienced twenty-something construction workers who fell to their deaths after cutting a circle in a thick concrete floor without realising they were standing in the middle of the circle. All this and much much more! Also includes sections on honorable mentions and debunks.
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Subtitle: A dictionary of things that there aren't any words for yet! Such as... Clabby (adj.): A conversation struck up by a cleaning lady or commissionaire in order to avoid further work. The opening gambit is meant to provoke the maximum confusion and the longest clabby conversation. Or...Lowther (vb) To stand aimlessly about on the footpath after coming out of the cinema and argue about whether to go and eat a Chinese meal nearby or an Indian meal at a restaurant which someone says is very good but isn't certain where it is or just go home; or to have the Chinese meal nearby - by the time agreement is reached everything is shut. And many more definitions which are equally hilarious in true Adams fashion. Illustrated by Bert Kitchen. -
First published in 1770, this is a critique of rural depopulation and the pursuit of excessive wealth, describing the decline of a village and the emigration of many of its residents to America. Goldsmith covers the moral corruption found in towns, consumerism, enclosure, landscape gardening and the avarice of the wealthy who take the land for their own pleasures and business whilst the poor who worked the land and lived off the land must go to pastures new. Illustrations by W. Lee Hankey. -
This is no ordinary 'Guide to Italy' - this is a collection of charming legends, tales and anecdotes created by the author and inspired by the regions of Italy. Naples - The Castle That Came Out Of An Egg; Sorrento, Almalfi, Pompeii - The Dog Of Pompeii; Ravello, Salerno, Paestum - The Temple Boy; The Hill Towns - Orvieto, Prugia, Assissi - The Donkey Of God; Gubbio, San Gimignano, Siena - The Horse of Siena; Florence - The Painted Death; Venice - Daughter of the Lion; and Rome - The Holy Cross. Some of the tales are little-known legends, combining history with mystery. The longer stories are pure inventions whose outcome are the observations and experiences of an alert and sensitive traveler. But they are more than that. They are the creations of a poet whose imagination is enriched by humor. With 63 fabulous woodcuts.
