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From the first day at school, your teacher has always been there for you. This collection of quotations is the perfect gift to let your favourite teacher know how much you appreciate them.

Is ‘shit’ the most versatile word in the English language? Quite possibly!

This little book presents some of the best uses of our favourite expletive. From doctors (Take two shits and call me in the morning) to waiters (You want fries with that shit?), and whether you’re a Darwinist (It’s survival of the shittest) or a Catholic (If shit happens, we deserve it), there’s enough shit for everyone!

When Samantha Brick’s life started to unravel – her company in liquidation, homeless, penniless and friendless, and on max-strength anti-depressants – it seemed that everything was going wrong. But a chance week away in France led to the most unexpected of all turn-arounds: a whirlwind romance with gun-toting, stubborn and ever-so-macho Pascal. It wasn’t until she moved in to his cottage in the beautiful Lot region in south-west France that she realised how shamefully ill-equipped she was for the country life.

Like Cinderella in reverse, Samantha had to learn to cook, clean, chop wood and keep house, as well as discovering how to be a step-mum to Pascal’s know-it-all ten-year-old son, finding love and happiness along the way.

‘I wouldn’t say I was the best manager in the business. But I was in the top one.’
Brian Clough
Sport is the stuff of high drama, big personalities and some very memorable quips. This collection of funny and thoughtful words from across the sporting spectrum is at the top of its game.

If you don’t know a cold war from a cold sore, then take comfort in this cracking, all-new, fun-size dose of F in Exams, containing some of the worst howlers from school history exams.

Jack brort a cak to school and we all had a pis

Captin Cok was a famos exploder

I found a spare seal so I quickly sat on it

Children are at their funniest when they are trying to be serious, and their earnest attempts at mastering the English language are a veritable goldmine of unintentional humour, from the charming to the ludicrous, and from the profound to the downright X-rated. Enjoy this side-splitting collection of spelling slip-ups and homework howlers.

‘… you won’t know whether to laugh or cry’ DAILY MAIL


 Getting up at the crack of dawn, wearing school uniform, squabbles in the schoolyard, endless homework… those were the best days of your life! It’s time to relive them with this new collection of side-splitting jokes and ridiculous exam answers, showcasing the very best (and worst) in school humour.

What do you call a cheap circumcision? A rip-off!


Filled with more filth than three-week old underwear, this little collection of obscene one-liners, smutty shenanigans and graphic gags will have you blushing like a freshly spanked bottom and sniggering like a naughty school kid.

The woman was one of those irritating expat types who felt she owed it to the world to impart on her all her superior knowledge of life in France. I realised that if I didn’t stop her now, she’d be bending my ear all the way to Bergerac.

‘Actually,’ I said, leaning in toward the woman, ‘I’m planning to integrate my way into the boxers of the first good-looking Frenchman I see. Can’t think of any better way to learn the language myself. You wouldn’t happen to know the French for “fancy a shag?” would you? Voulez-vous coucher avec moi just seems a bit nineteen-seventies these days.’

After one particularly bad day at work, advertising executive and confirmed city girl Melanie Jones decides to give up her old life in search of something new and simpler in South West France. With little knowledge of the country, even less of the language and just the memory of a disastrous school French exchange and a few day trips to Calais, she embarks on her adventure with a suitcase full of optimism and not a little bit of naivety. After all, how different can life in France be?

After a series of adventures with skirt-ripping tractors, handsome twin farmers, celebrity not-quite-beens, unusual toilets and a bonkers ex-pat community, all topped up, of course, with lashings of rosé, Melanie begins to discover that her new life in France isn’t quite what she’d thought it would be.

‘Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren’t’

Margaret Thatcher, UK prime minister 1979-1990 and leader of the Conservative Party 1975-1990, was the only women to hold either post, and was re-elected for an unprecedented third term, earning her a place in British history as one of the most extraordinary figures of the late twentieth century.

This collection gathers together pithy and often witty quotations by the outspoken Iron Lady and fellow party members-many of them still surprisingly relevant today.

Class has begun!
It’s a new term and you can’t wait for it to end. If only the holidays were longer… or school didn’t exist. To get through it, you’re going to need survival skills:
Essential items: Headache pills, tranquillisers, stress ball, flare gun…
Do power dress to show you’re not to be messed with. Don’t wear a Darth Vader costume.
This mischievous little book will help see you through your years as a teacher with tongue-in-cheek advice and cheeky illustrations.

If the thought of science exams conjures

up the memory of singeing your

eyebrow on a Bunsen burner, then take

comfort in this cracking, all-new, funsize

dose of F in Exams, containing

some of the most glorious howlers from

school science exams.

If you get perspiration and precipitation

confused, then take comfort in this

hilarious, all-new, fun-size dose of F in

Exams, containing some of the most

cringeworthy howlers from school

Geography exams.

‘Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope’ Bill Cosby

‘My father had a profound influence on me, he was a lunatic’ Spike Milligan

When your precious offspring have hijacked the car and there’s a hole in your wallet the size of the Grand Canyon, kick back and relax with this hilarious book, crammed full of quips and quotes to remind you of why being a dad is the best job in the world.

What did the poo say to the fart?
You blow me away!
 
Full to the brim with obscene one-liners, gross-out gags and smutty shenanigans, this book should be your number one – and number two – choice for lav-based laughs.

Is “shit” the most versatile word in the English language? Quite possibly!

From Philosophical Shit to Animal Shit, and Cultural Shit to Political Shit, this little book is the perfect gift for potty-humoured people.

We’ve been saying “shit” (meaning “trash”) since the sixteenth century – “The government is a load of shit!” – but the word itself has been around for thousands of years. Now it’s a fan favourite four-letter word, used when you stub your toe, eat something good, spot something gross on the carpet, and all that other shit.

With pages dedicated to some of the best uses of our favourite expletive, this book will make you laugh out loud, think about scientific shit, work, religion, and so on, and reflect on just how versatile a word “shit” really is.

Some of the shits this book gives:
– Doctors: Take two shits and call me in the morning
– Waiters: You want fries with that shit?
– Darwinism: Survival of the shittest
– Jediism: May the shit be with you

There’s enough shit for everyone!

A chance conversation with her greengrocer about the media’s portrayal of India inspired journalist Justine Hardy to leave London and, following in the footsteps of Rudyard Kipling, spend a year working at The Indian Express in New Delhi. Her new life – with a quirky landlord who turns out to be a former Rajput prince – takes her all over India from polo matches and Assam tea gardens to city slums.

Experience the world by train alongside best-selling travel writer Tom Chesshyre, as he takes a whistle-stop tour around the globe in 49 unique journeys

Why do people love trains so much?

Tom Chesshyre is on a mission to find the answer by experiencing the world through train travel – on both epic and everyday rail routes, aboard every type of ride, from steam locomotives to bullet trains, meeting a cast of memorable characters who share a passion for train travel.

Join him on the rails and off the beaten track as he embarks on an exhilarating whistle-stop tour around the globe, on journeys on celebrated trains and railways including:

– India’s famed toy train
– Sri Lanka’s Reunification Express
– The Indian Pacific across the Australian outback
– The Shanghai maglev
– And the picturesque rail journeys of the Scottish Highlands
Plus trains through Kosovo, North Macedonia, Turkey, Iran, Finland, Russia, America and France, with short interludes in North Korea, Italy, Poland, Peru, Switzerland, England and Lithuania. All aboard!

If you thought there was only one type of fart, get ready to be blown away!

This amusing and informative little book is set to entertain farters far and wide. Featuring all things flatulence, it’s the perfect gift for toilet-humoured-trouser-coughers!

Human beings are made unique by a selection of special and beautiful things: our fingerprints, our irises, our voices… and our farts.

Covering the many different types of farts, farty facts (did you know, a person farts around 15 times a day?), farting etiquette, top-trumping tips and bottom-burp analysis, this book is sure to make you laugh out loud and let one rip.

Get a whiff of what this book’s got going on inside:

· Historical farts, such as The Tomb of Toot-ankhamun
· Musical farts, such as Trumpet Chorus
· Travel farts, such as Turdulance
· Animal Farts, such as The Whale Song
· Mini Farts, such as Pocket Parp

And more!

After reading this pocket-(parp)-sized book, you’ll realize you didn’t know the first thing about flatulence!

Technology has become the too-easy way to entertain ourselves and our children. For parents who are concerned about screen time during times of self-isolation and home schooling, and kids who wish their grown ups would play with them more, this easy-to-use, imaginative book has everything. From five-minute time fillers to large-scale party games, there’s plenty of fun here to keep your family laughing:
Sporty games and playground classics Activities for indoors, gardens, parks and beaches Memory and travel games, brain teasers and magic tricks No preparation or lengthy shopping trips needed for these creative ideas, just find your idea and go! This encyclopedia of joy is perfect for families big and small who want to have fun in the real world.

How to play:
1. Open this book.
2. Flip to the country that tickles your fancy or choose a page at random.
3. Watch and smile as your party guests have a whale of a time.
4. Graciously accept their praise and adoration.
Yes, you can be the king or queen of the unforgettable dinner party or wild house party with this compendium of outrageous games.
With old classics like America’s Crazy Eights and Russia’s Mafia, alongside new and totally bonkers gems such as Armenia’s Egg Jousting and Germany’s Bier Boot, this is the only book you need to become a legendary party host.

Time: 3 mins to learn, 20 mins+ to play
Number of players: 3–15
Ages: 17+
Includes: 530 cards
Assembly required? No
Batteries required? No
Warning: This is not a game you should play with your parents!  
Compete to invent the most outrageous sexploits that will make even the most poker-faced players blush. Unmask the dirty, deviant and downright depraved minds of your friends in this side-splitting X-rated extravaganza. Easy to learn and quick to play! Use the cards to build a sentence – rude, obscene, funny or absurd – and vote on whose creation is the filthiest. Sentence examples include: “I was being pleasured by a gigantic lubricated dildo in Grandma’s living room”, or “I was thrusting against a silky, pulsing ballsack at a funeral” – and that’s barely scratching the surface! No two games are the same, as there are countless combinations of cards that can be played. There is no end to the cocktails of indecency you can create! Hilarious and profane, this disgraceful card game will guarantee that any pre-drinks, dinner party or games night is an absolute winner. Perfect for parties and adult games nights.

If you want to know your Socrates from your Sartre and your Confucius from your Kant, strap in for this whirlwind tour of the highlights of philosophy.

Philosophy is a quest for wisdom and knowledge; philosophia in Ancient Greek literally means “love of wisdom”. The aim of philosophy is to ask and explore life’s big questions to help us work out what we can know and how we can live a good life. Today, in a world of fake news, embarking on a quest for truth couldn’t be more important.

This pocket-sized introduction to important philosophers and key philosophical ideas includes accessible primers on:
– The early Greek philosophers and the “big three”: Socrates, Plato and Aristotle
– Key schools of philosophy from around the world – from ancient philosophy right up to the present day – and their impact on modern life
– Insights into the main questions philosophers have explored over the years: Who am I? What is the meaning of life? Do I have free will?
– Practical applications for the theories of Descartes, Kant, Wollstonecraft, Marx, Nietzsche and many more.
This illuminating little book will introduce you to the key thinkers, themes and theories you need to know to understand how human ideas have sculpted the world we live in and the way we think today. A perfect gift for anyone taking their first steps into the world of philosophy, as well as for those who want to brush up their knowledge.

Who else could take on the role of best friend, counsellor and guardian and be so good at it?!

Celebrate everything you love about your mum with this little book, packed with hand-picked quotes and statements to show her how much she means to you. It is the perfect keepsake that will remind her again and again that she really is Mum in a million.