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The Missing Angel: Erle Cox
$30.00Tydvil Jones is a victim of feminine autocracy; he's no longer young and he awoke to the fact that he'd never had a day's fun in his entire life. Fiercely determined to make up for lost time, he finds an ally in a very Powerful Personage. In three months, he manages more riotous adventure than most men manage in a lifetime and squares his account with his nagging spouse. He complicates the lives of his friends, confounds his enemies and becomes the most wanted by the entire police force. Jones breaks the shackles of convention and emerges triumphant, shameless and unregenerate - but very very happy! In the style of Thorne Smith. -
Everything and everyone is under the gun in this collection of outrageous stories and non-politically jokes! Even James Bond isn't exempt. There's blonde bombshells, ethnic jokes, religious rib-ticklers, mansplains, church crackers, sex, quickies and shorties and the completely bizarre to make you laugh out loud wherever you are. Adults only... -
Yambo, a sixtyish rare-book dealer who lives in Milan, has suffered a loss of memory - he can remember the plot of every book he has ever read, every line of poetry, but he no longer knows his own name, doesn't recognize his wife or his daughters, and remembers nothing about his parents or his childhood. In an effort to retrieve his past, he withdraws to the family home somewhere in the hills between Milan and Turin. There, in the sprawling attic, he searches through boxes of old newspapers, comics, records, photo albums, and adolescent diaries. And so Yambo relives the story of his generation: Mussolini, Catholic education and guilt, Josephine Baker, Flash Gordon, Fred Astaire. His memories run wild, and the life racing before his eyes takes the form of a graphic novel. Yambo struggles through the frames to capture one simple, innocent image: that of his first love. Illustrated. -
Phantom No. 7 . A palatial 200 ft yacht, The Sea Horse and a luxurious private island guarded by fierce dogs - all the property of the suave and charming Chris Danton. What is the source of his seemingly inexhaustible wealth? What is the grim secret behind the 'ageless' smile of the master of The Sea Horse ? The Phantom's sweetheart, beautiful Diana Palmer, innocently stumbles into Danton's web and finds herself caught up in an evil conspiracy from which she can be saved only by the power and ingenuity of the Phantom - The Ghost Who Walks...Cover art by George Wilson. -
Even in these days of X-Box and IPhones, there'll be some who'll remember when annuals such as these were eagerly looked for in the Christmas gifts - full of stories, games, puzzles and riddles. This one from 1961 is plenty of everything. Stories include: Clapper Boy, C. Schuster; Foes Of The Forest, Charles Hamilton (creator of Billy Bunter) ; Sports Club, Robert Bateman; Lovell On The War-Path, Owen Conquest; Shaghra The Leader, John Bancroft; The Flight of the Strato Queen, Leonard Gribble; The Guardian Of Devil's Cave, D.L.G. Stainton; Adrift On An Iceberg, Peter Spencer; Night Train To Zurich, Vincent Griffin; The Green Fire, Alan C. Jenkins; Just Like Jack! Frank Richards; Percy's Potty Prank, John Forsyth; The Young Archers, Sydney J. Bounds; Dawson's Double, Haydn Warman; Herring Moon, Arthur Catherall; Tick-Tock's Grandfather, David Norris; Who Cares About Archaeology? Robert Bateman; Spot On The Wicket, John Bancroft; Off The Record, Geoffrey Morgan; Sparks At Strathdrene, J.A. Jordan; The Wellport Wonder, John Forsyth; Adventures In Devon, William Luscombe; Pirates Of The Deep, Sydney J. Bounds; Old Bob's Barn, Louis Valentine; Terry Of The Tight Rope, Clifton Heath; Wildcatter By Accident, James Frederick; Leave Him To Ozzy, Michael Kendrick; Invisible Ink, R.A. Hall; Palma Incident, Darry McCarthy; Menace On Wheels, D.L.G. Stainton; Coral Sea Adventure, R.A. Hall; School House Mystery, Guy Leslie; The Stolen Renoir, The Phantom Rustlers and Road Ace, Sydney J. Bounds; Two Hundred Feet Of Celluloid and Phil Barton - Crack Runner, Robert Bateman. -
Realising he was on more than delicate ground and risking being caught between the choppers of the Machos and the Amazons , the irrepressible Ronald Searle felt it was more than time for a de-sexerciser - or at least, having a second look at some of the more sombre sexist crannies in the English language. The French don't seem to mind that la barbe (beard) is feminine; but in neuter English there are some anomalies crying out for correction. Is it logic that men should monopolise menopause ? Out of justice, womenpause must come. And so, Searle has corrected anomalies such as abandonment (abandonwoment) mandolin (womandolin) dismantle diswomantle - and more - complete with illustrations. -
A fabulously sage collection of wisdom and observations from the most brilliant mind of his day. Just a sample: 'Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.' Or...'The daily newspaper! The educator of the people! God help us, it might be so. It educates into inattention, folly, sin, vacuity and foolishness. It saps concentration, dissipates aspiration, scrambles grey matter and irons out convolutions. Watch the commuter rush for his Dope when he reaches the station in the morning.' That was written in 1927 - so not much has changed. Hubbard, were he alive today, would probably say the same of television or the Internet. -
Gabrielle Van Der Mal, a young gifted and strong willed Belgian girl, becomes Sister Luke and as a nun must remove all traces of her former self and sublimate herself as a devoted bride of Christ with no room for her personal desires and aspirations. She dedicates her life to the care of the sick as she battles to reconcile the demands of her Order with her pride as a nurse. She must face the heart-breaking and terrifying task of nursing the insane and finds her faith tested in Africa where she finds herself at odds with headstrong Dr. Fortunati, operator of a remote Congo hospital, with whom she gradually builds respect. She is ordered not to take sides in World War II, even as she witnesses the horrors of the Nazi invasion of Belgium and risks her life aiding the escape of British airmen and this order causes the final conflict within Sister Luke. -
Or Why I Don't Steal Towels from Great Hotels Anymore. This is not a travel book, exactly, and it's not a book about hotels. It's a book about obsessions and the need to let our obsessions guide us to discoveries...Travel can be the supreme pleasure in life but only if we undertake an interior journey along with our exterior voyage.Among other topics, Dale covers: Why men want to read maps and women want to ask the way; how to stop a taxi driver from talking to you; where to find the guidebook that suits your personality; the how, what and why of souveniring from Great Hotels; whether you should be in love with your travelling companion; where to go star-spotting for dead celebrities; how to enjoy fake travel and pseudo nostalgia; the best and worst waiters, streets, train dining cars, restaurants and small museums in the world; and why shopping is a waste of good siesta time. With amusing sketches by Matthew Martin.
