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From 'Did Harry Potter kill Hitler' to 'Can we play cricket in your bookshop?', here's a bewildering, slightly alarming and definitely hilarious selection of the most ridiculous conversations from the shop floor! And these gems and gold nuggets have been supplied from booksellers across the world...and truly, they border on the realms of fantasy. Notable weird things include a request for a book on the workings of an internal combustion engine suitable for a three-year-old, the lost ferret and speculation that The Hungry Caterpillar was possibly bulimic...honestly, no-one could invite this stuff.... -
Jck Lemmon was one of Hollywood's greatest stars, not only loved by fans but also by the many actors and directors he worked with over an exceptionally long career. Born into a prosperous Boston family, Jack went from Harvard and wartime service in the US Navy to the hand-to-mouth existence of the struggling young actor. He would accept no handouts. He preferred the stage, but accepted work in American television, still in its pioneering days and then Hollywood. He thrived on hard work, acquiring his first Oscar long before most actors are even noticed. Many of his early films, such as The Apartment, Some Like It Hot and the classic Mr Roberts with veterans James Cagney, Henry Fonda and William Powell have become legendary comedy. Yet he made successes of many dramatic, challenging roles and he was known as the least demanding and most unassuming Hollywood star. -
The author travelled completely around the continent - a distance of 13,000 miles. He visited cities, towns and villages; sheep and cattle stations; the Woomera rocket range and indigenous settlements. The reader will meet a wide range of personalities and read informal discussions on a great many topics: immigration, population problems and potentials, Australian farming and much more, all leading to speculation on the future of this country and what role in will play on the world stage in the future. -
A humorous review of the most eccentric hotels on offer to today's traveller. Marion and Lucy, ladies in their fifties, stay in strange hotels for good reasons and not only live to tell their tales, but discover the answers to some intriguing questions, such as : What is the young man in white gloves bringing on the silver tray? Where are you when the lights go out in a dingy room in Bangalore? Why go out to the telephone on the Boulevarde St. Germain instead of using the one in the room? And what of the Englishman who designed discotheques for the Shah of Persia? -
Ben Rutherford was brought up on a high country sheep station in New Zealand, and brought up the old fashioned way. Here he shares his stories of high country farming, swaggers, station cooks and their eccentric temperament, dog trials, horse racing, pig and deer shooting and other rumbustious elements of the New Zealand way of life...a way of life so rumbustious that a farmer member of the Christchurch Club was once heard to exclaim: "It's not the rabbits I'm worrying about, it's the Rutherfords!" -
Fifty miles upstream from the mouth of the vast Digoel River, which rises in the central range of New Guinea, are the vast reedy swamps which are the breeding grounds of innumerable crocodiles. Gunther Bahnemann, a daring rebel who had once deserted from the Afrika Korps, took a poaching expedition there, running a gauntlet of Dutch gunboats and the even more dangerous hazards of the jungle head hunters whose domain he invaded. In this unique adventure, the one-time Wehrmacht dispatch rider, now an Australian, describes how he and the men with him risked their lives to make quick money. But not easy money. -
George Burns, born Nathan Birnbaum, was an American comedian, actor, and writer. His career spanned vaudeville, film, radio, and television, with and without his wife, Gracie Allen. His arched eyebrow and cigar smoke punctuation became familiar trademarks for over three quarters of a century. Sprightly, cheeky and irreverent, George declared his intention of living to 100 - and he did. He was one of the first to observe that if someone is hurt, then it isn't funny6. Here is his memoir, from the days of vaudeville to the beginning of popular radio and onto the heyday of Hollywood. Illustrated with archival black and white photographs. -
Wells intended this volume to be straightforwardly, almost as a novel is read. It gives, in a most general way, an account of our present knowledge of history, shorn of elaborations and complications. Its special end is to meet the needs of the busy general reader who 'wishes to repair his faded or fragmentary conception of the great adventure of Mankind.' This edition was revised from the 1922 edition and prepared b y Professor G.P. Wells (H.G. Wells' son) and Raymond Postgate. Five new chapters have been added and the original maps are redrawn, with two new maps added. Cover: Detail from Prismes électriques by Sonia Delaunay. -
Features contributions from such luminaries as Arnold Bennet, Roald Dahl, Conan Doyle, Ernest Hemingway, Doris Lessing, Jack London, Irwin Shaw, Leo Tolstoy, Evelyn Waugh and many others - all covering the very wide world of sport: baseball, boxing, horse racing, mountain climbing, golf, football, sailing, hunting, cricket and bull fighting.
