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Established in 1978 by the Diagram Group as an antidote to the tedium of the Frankfurt Book Fair, and now presided over by the Bookseller magazine, the Diagram is awarded annually to the most bizarre book title. Following the success of its prequel How to Avoid Huge Ships, Baboon Metaphysics proudly ...

Let's face it, at one time or another we've all had bad sex. But now New Yorker cartoonist Danny Shanahan (author of Innocent, Your Honor and I'm No Quack) reminds us, through a collection of witty and sinful drawings, that bad sex is definitely better than no sex. Shanahan's playful world of naughty ...

Collected by the writers of the BBC show, QI, and authors of the worldwide bestsellers The Book of General Ignorance and 1,227 QI Facts To Blow Your Socks Off, here is a hilarious and informative selection of the QI team's fun facts.

The first of its kind, A Twitter Year distills a year of conversation, argument, revelation and revolution into a 'review of the year' as written by the Twitter community

Tells us the stories of inventors, Nobel Prize winners, scientists, actresses, escapees, engineers, kings, architects, pop stars, criminals, supermodels, tennis champions, opera singers and many more who have benefited from happy serendipity. This title celebrates the type of unexpected good fortune we all dream of.

A romantic deck, featuring text and seven activities.

Features simple artwork drawn on index cards.

Stephen Colbert wasThe Daily Show's longest-running and most diverse correspondent. His personality, insight and general rightness led toThe Colbert Report, a half-hour TV platform for his views on the issues of the day and, more importantly, why everyone else's views are just plain wrong. InI Am America ...

This collection of hundreds of words from English speakers around the world - complete with space and an invitation to add your own - is a wonderfully entertaining celebration of the spoken word and the people who take pleasure in it.After all, what other language has fifty-seven words for the TV remote control?

The tone is carefully chosen: subservient, condescending, solicitous, disdainful. That's the way the now ubiquitous 'African Scam Mail' has descended upon us and that's the way German illustrator and author Henning Wagenbreth applies his own distinct style and wit to depict them. Using just a few bright ...

Dictators' pets are too often ignored, but no longer. They're all here in this hilarious collection of madcap ditties. The volume also includes a Holy Roman Opera, "Turmoil in Brindisi" about a long-forgotten ecumenical council called by Pope Sixtus the Sixth, an equally forgotten pope, and philosophers' ...

Women are complex creatures; men are beasts. Daisy Hay reminds us of 100 reasons why men are living proof that women can take a joke. And if men really are from Mars, why don't we have the technology to send them back?

Sean Thomas was single, thirty-seven and, by his own admission, just 'a tiny bit desperate' to meet the woman of his dreams, when he was asked by the editor of "Men's Health" to try Internet dating.

Groovy old men still move with the times. They were also present at the birth of youth culture in the 50s. A humorous, entertaining and occasionally provocative commentary on older male life in the noughties, this book invents then dissects the Groovy Old Men phenomenon, and peers into the glamorous world of Groovy Old Men of the future.

A cosy duvet and a hot drink, a supportive friend and a stack of old films - when we're out of sorts, these are the things that help us get well. This title presents the pick-me-up for a friend or loved one who's feeling under the weather.

Presents a way to celebrate a friend or loved one's birthday.

You know you're getting old when...

... you stop seeing the speed limit as a challenge.

... you have a party and the neighbours don't even realise it.

If this sounds all too familiar, this handy guide will help determine whether you're creaking gently into your autumn years or can still kick it with the kids!