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Learn to forage in the hedgerows like the herbalists of the past with this best-selling beginner’s guide.

For centuries our ancestors looked to nature not just for food, but also for healing. To this day, our ancient hedgerows, woodlands and forests are still full of remedies – and they’re waiting to be discovered.

This is the essential guide to enjoying the bountiful delights of the natural world. Learn how to make delicious preserves, healing balms, soothing toddies and cures for colds with nature’s jewels such as rose hips, elderberries and mugwort.

You will also find:

– Photographs to help you safely identify edible plants
– Advice on what is available in each season
– Guidance on how best to prepare and preserve your finds
– The fascinating folklore and history of foraging
Every walk is an opportunity to learn, identify a new plant, gather something to eat and reconnect with nature – so dive in to begin your foraging adventure.

Hamish decided to call his father-in-law ‘The Exorcist’ because every time he came to visit he made the spirits disappear.
If you’re Scottish, you like a wee joke. Aye, and you can take one just as well. Packed with the very best one-liners and yarns from the land of the brave, The Little Book of Scottish Jokes will get you guffawing in no time.

I threw the kitchen sink at him but he went to the bathroom and got his tub.
Andy Roddick on Roger Federer
When I lost my decathlon world record I took it like a man. I only cried for ten hours.
Daley Thompson
I’ve seen George Foreman shadow boxing and the shadow won.
Muhammad Ali
Win, lose or draw, players and fans always have something to say about it. Packed to the rafters with the best quips and quotes from across the world of sport, this massive collection will keep you smiling in the stands even when you’re smarting from the scoreline.

My doctor asked me if I drank to excess. I told him I would drink to anything.
What is a bear’s favourite pasta? Tagliateddy.
How do snowmen get to work? By icicle.
If laughter is the best medicine, this colossal compendium is an overdose waiting to happen! With gags grouped into sections ranging from babies and birthdays to marriage and music, there’s something for everyone in these jest-packed pages. Side effects may include split sides and a sore jaw.

When the little angels are driving you crazy and you’re one minivan away from being a personal taxi service, these wonderful quips and quotes are the perfect reminder of why being a mother is the best job in the world.

Another year, another set of exams and another round of well-meaning students to provide us with our textbook mix of wisdom and wisecracks.

Bursting with yet more crazy and creative thinking, this book showcases an all-new selection of test paper answers, from hilarious misunderstandings to breathtaking ingenuity.

Time: 10+ minutes to play
Number of players: 2+
Ages: 5+
Includes: 52 cards, plus 8 gameplay instruction cards
Assembly required? No
Batteries required? No

What could be more fun than playing with poop?
Here’s a deck of cards like no other, and the smiliest (and smelliest) poop friends you’re ever likely to meet. With instructions on toilet-themed games to play, including Smelly Families, Go Poop and Constipation (formerly Patience), games nights will never be the same!

Number of players: 2+
Ages: 12+
Includes: 150 trivia cards, plus one How to Play card
Assembly required? No
Batteries required? No

– In the 1975 blockbuster film Jaws, who said “You’re gonna need a bigger boat”?
– How long did the Hundred Years’ War between England and France last?
– Which fishy hair style was big in the 1970s?

This trivia game, perfect for giving to a friend or family member on their sixtieth birthday, is packed with questions ranging from the totally random to things that happened in their formative years. It will bring extra fun to the birthday celebrations as you take a trip down memory lane together.

Number of players: 2+
Ages: 12+
Includes: 150 trivia cards, plus one How to Play card
Assembly required? No
Batteries required? No

– Most of the clocks in Quentin Tarantino’s 1994 film Pulp Fiction are stuck at 4:20. True or False?
– How long is Ninety Mile Beach on New Zealand’s North Island?
– Which Canadian superstar, singing in French and representing Switzerland, won the Eurovision Song Contest in 1988?

This trivia game, perfect for giving to a friend or family member on their fiftieth birthday, is packed with questions ranging from the totally random to things that happened in their formative years. It will bring extra fun to the birthday celebrations as you take a trip down memory lane together.

Number of players: 2+
Ages: 12+
Includes: 150 trivia cards, plus one How to Play card
Assembly required? No
Batteries required? No
The French word for pie chart is Camembert. True or false?
Which tennis players competed in the Battle of the Sexes in September 1973?
What colour are aircraft black boxes?
This trivia game, perfect for giving to a friend or family member on their seventieth birthday, is packed with questions ranging from the totally random to things that happened in their formative years. It will bring extra fun to the birthday celebrations as you take a trip down memory lane together.

Time: 60+ minutes to play

Number of players: 2+

Ages: 18+

Includes: 79 cards, plus 1 instruction card

Assembly required? No

Batteries required? No

Warning: Not suitable for persons under 18 years. For adult use only.

Play the game, if you dare…

Are you ready for some X-rated fun? This sinful stack of rude and raunchy dares is guaranteed to get tongues wagging and set pulses racing. Nights out (or in) will never be the same.

My mate was selling a television cheap because the volume was broken. I couldn’t turn it down.

What’s black and white and bad all over? These jokes! Groaning with silly gags, classic crap wisecracks, naff knock-knocks, poor puns and lame one-liners, this book will make you cry until you laugh.

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!

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!

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.

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!