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Politically Correct Bedtime Stories

Published on September 1, 2011 in Featured, Humour and Out Now. 0 Comments Tags: .
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Politically Correct Bedtime Stories
James Finn Garner

978 0 285 640412
Format HB
£7.99

James Finn Garner has taken the opportunity to rewrite classic stories for more enlightened times: from Snow White’s relationship with seven vertically challenged men, Little Red Riding Hood, her grandma and the cross-dressing wolf who set up an alternative household based on mutual respect and cooperation to the Emperor who was not naked but was endorsing a clothing-optional lifestyle.

In this new edition, for the first time read the true story of what happened when the Ugly Duckling was judged on its personal merits and not on its physical appearance.

At last, here is bedtime reading free from prejudice and discrimination to witches, giants, dwarves, goblins and fairies everywhere. You can remedy this cultural defect by reading Politically Correct Bedtime Stories and discovering what really happened when Jack climbed the beanstalk, when Cinderella went to the ball and when the wolf tried to blow down the house of the Three Little Pigs.

For anyone brought up on sexist, racist, sizeist and ethnocentrist reading matter these stories have been purged of the influence of an insensitive cultural past to become fables for our times.

James Finn Garner is the descendant of dead white Europeans and is a writer and performer based in Chicago. His official website can be found HERE

“One of those works which cleave an author instantly to your heart… It is beautiful. It demolishes, in few but elegant words, a dozen kinds of silliness.”Libby Purves, ‘The Times’

“Not only essential reading for adults of all ages, but also the wisest, funniest, most thoughtful thing yet written on the subject of PC.”
Observer

“The definitive, non-exploitative, non-patriarchalist (dontcha hate doing that to the kids?) … collection of bedtime stories.”
Daily Telegraph

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Warning: When I am an Old Woman I Shall Wear Purple

Published on July 6, 2011 in Featured and Humour. 0 Comments Tags: .
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Warning: When I am an Old Woman I Shall Wear Purple
Charles Sale

978 0 285 63411 4
Format HB/PB
£4.99

Voted Britain’s favourite poem in 1996, ‘Warning’ (which was written in 1961) is loved all over the world. Its declaration of defiance appeals to the rebel in all of us as we secretly yearn to throw off the shackles of propriety and enjoy the freedom at cocking a snook at the rest of the world.

Jenny Joseph has created a character, with her outrageous clothes and dotty behaviour, whose thoughts are quoted at conferences, funerals and has been set to music, quoted on a television advert, printed as a postcard and even iced onto cakes. With Pythia Ashton-Jewell’s specially designed illustrations to suit the unique character and piquancy of one of the most popular poems of our time.

Jenny Joseph published her first collection of poetry in 1960 and received a Gregory Award for it. Since then she has become one of Britain’s leading poets, in 1996 the viewers of BBC TV voted ‘Warning’ to be the Nation’s Favourite Poem and it has gone on to be an international bestseller. Jenny Joseph lives in Gloucestershire.

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The Specialist

Published on July 6, 2011 in Humour. 0 Comments Tags: .
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The Specialist
Charles Sale

978 0 285 63226 4
Format HB/PB
£6.99

There was a time when few households would have been without a copy of The Specialist, a humour classic that is one of the funniest books ever written

The personal credo of Lem Putt, a specialist in ‘the simpler forms of sanitary engineering’, presents the philosophy of a man who loves his trade and has considered every aspect of it, from how to prevent people dawdling when they commune with nature to solving the problem of female modesty in an ingenious way. As Lem observes: “There’s a lot of fine points to puttin’ up a first-class privy that the average man don’t think about”.

Including the original illustrations by William Kermode this is a book that will keep its readers laughing well into the twenty-first century.

Charles Sale lived in Carmel County, California, and based the character of Lem Putt on a real person who “was just as sincere in his work as a great painter whose heart is in his canvas”.

“A gentle education in the nature of real humour.”
‘Daily Express’

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Knickers

Published on July 6, 2011 in Featured and Humour. 0 Comments Tags: .
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Knickers
Rosemary Hawthorne

978 0 285 63822 8
Format HB/PB
£10.00

The history of the knicker is a history of women’s rights as much as fashion. From Queen Victoria and the Quaker reformer Amelia Bloomer to the G-string, Rosemary Hawthorne is the perfect guide through this fascinating history.

As entertaining as it is informative, Rosemary Hawthorne exposes the true history of women’s fashion, social history delivered with a large helping of humour, irreverence and evocative illustrations of knickers, drawers, pantaloons, bloomers and g-strings.
One of Britain’s leading fashion historians describes, like never before, the liberty bodice, the mighty Y-front and much much more… there isn’t a brief left unturned!

Rosemary Hawthorne trained at RADA and is married to a vicar. While bringing up 7 children, she began collecting old clothes and now owns one of the largest collection of vintage underwear in Britain. Her one-woman show, ‘The Knicker Lady’, has sold out at venues all over Britain.

“200 years ago an unsexy pair of knee-length pants was first called knickers… uncover the brief history of the frivolous morale-booster.”
‘Daily Express’

“The gospel on everything from pantaloons and pantalettes to divided drawers, bloomers and scanties.”
‘Yours’

“A social history, delivered with a large helping of humour, irreverence and evocative illustrations.”‘Hull Daily Mail’

“Delving into the history of knickers is no brief undertaking… Who better to shed light on this undercover subject than Rosemary Hawthorne, Britain’s self-styled Knicker Lady.”
‘Sunday Post’

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Humour

Published on April 19, 2011 in Humour. 0 Comments
Humour

978 0 285 63097 0 Le Petomane £6.99 Jean Nohain & Francois Caradec
978 0 285 63591 3 The Art of Napping at Work £6.99 Camille & William Anthony
978 0 285 63773 3 The Beer Guru’s Guide £10.00 Chris Street
978 0 285 63580 7 Christmas Again Already £6.99 Gary Joliffe
978 0 285 62950 9 Facts and Phalluses £5.99 Alexander Parsons
978 0 285 63822 8 Knickers: An Intimate
Re-Appraisal		 £10.00 Rosemary Hawthorne
978 0 285 63445 9 Politically Incorrect Jokes From
the Net		 £8.99 Phillip Adams & Patrice Newell
978 0 285 63226 4 The Specialist £6.99 Charles Sale
978 0 285 63143 4 Stockings and Suspenders £7.99 Rosemary Hawthorne
978 0 285 63411 4 Warning: When I am an Old Woman I
Shall Wear Purple		 £4.99 Jenny Joseph
978 0 285 63401 5 Whatever Happened To …? £7.99 Adrian Mourby
978 0 285 63338 4 The Wrath of Grapes £7.99 Andy Toper