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How to Attract the Wombat | |||
| Miscellaneous | ||||
| Will Cuppy | ||||
| Sutton 2007 166 pages | ||||
| Paperback Illustrated 0750946105 | ||||
| Published Price £8.99 | Sale Price £2.99 | |||
| This was the last satirical animal book by Will Cuppy (1884-1949), the American humorist famous for The Decline and Fall of Practically Everybody. In short essays, Cuppy examines curious creatures whose habits - or mere existence - seem to have disturbed him, and more mundane creatures like the frog or gnat which have no visible vices, but whose virtues are truly awful. The book deals with mammals, pond life, birds and insects, but pride of place goes to the 'Problem Mammal', the wombat. | ||||
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Queen Elizabeth's Wooden Teeth | |||
| And Other Historical Fallacies | Miscellaneous | |||
| Andrea Barham | ||||
| Michael O'Mara 2007 192 pages | ||||
| Hardback Illustrated 1843172399 | ||||
| Published Price £9.99 | Sale Price £2.99 | |||
| This spirited fight against historical misconception investigates the myths, fabrications and general ambiguities that are rife among the annals of history, from Walter Raleigh not bringing back the potato from the New World, to Winston Churchill's not being born in a ladies' toilet. | ||||
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The Clan of the Flapdragon and Other Adventures in Etymology | |||
| by BMW Shrapnel PhD | Miscellaneous | |||
| Richard McKee | ||||
| Alabama 1997 183 pages | ||||
| Hardback 0817308814 | ||||
| Published Price £16.95 | Sale Price £12.99 | |||
| In his regular columns for the literary magazine Oasis, the pseudonymous Shrapnel satirized topics including murgatroyd and tiddlywinks, the Cajun proctologist Toulouse Mars, and what to give an etymologist for Christmas. Plus letters to the editor. | ||||
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The Affected Provincial's Companion | |||
| Volume One | Miscellaneous | |||
| Lord Breaulove Swells Whimsy | ||||
| Bloomsbury 2006 160 pages | ||||
| Hardback Illustrated 074758253X | ||||
| Published Price £9.99 | Sale Price £2.99 | |||
| The affected provincial - 'a sleepless autodidact who lurks on the periphery, dabbling in this and that' - is a creature in need of artistic and intellectual nourishment. Volume I of Whimsy's ironic odyssey through life's little trials provides the 'gentle reader' with just that, covering topics including 'A Natural History of the Peculiar', 'On the Perils of Sportswear' and 'How to Become a Folktale'. | ||||
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Wayne Winner's Arthouse Cinema no.1 | |||
| Miscellaneous | ||||
| Wayne Lloyd | ||||
| Immprint 2004 148 pages | ||||
| Paperback Illustrated 1903781078 | ||||
| Published Price £10.00 | Sale Price £4.99 | |||
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