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Neil Boorman Bonfire of the Brands

... 9780141025155 “Uncovering the hidden world of jokes”, which makes you think about why you are laughing. Guy Browning Never Hit a Jellyfish with a Spade Atlantic Books, £7.99, 13th, 9781843543428 Sequel to Never Push When It Says Pull from the “How to” Guardian ...

Published: Friday 25 May 2007
Newspaper: Bookseller
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 541 | Page: 31 | Tags: none

BBC, Ist, h/b, £2O, 0563487097

... It Says Pull: Small Rules for Little Problems Atlantic, 15th, h/b, £9.99, 1843544733 Enjoyable follow-up to Never Hit a Jellyfish with a Spade, containing more precise instructions for those actions you normally mess up, including what to do with your ...

Published: Friday 03 June 2005
Newspaper: Bookseller
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 558 | Page: 31 | Tags: none

ALL THE TEA IN CHINA

... MEAL EVER it takes a lot to nauseate seasoned travellers, but this meal reduced us to hysteria. In no particular order: jellyfish; bosom-shaped mousse of fish eggs; duck feet ('vile and gelatinous'); fish soup with white fungus, like tripe; small dried ...

Published: Thursday 21 December 2006
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1887 | Page: 86 | Tags: none

Booksellers’ choice

... to just about anyone, apart from Old Testament purists who may have a hard time with the sex scenes. Finally, Never Hit a Jellyfish with a Spade by Guy Browning is a collection of his fantastic How To . . . Guardian column. It’s had me snorting with laughter ...

Published: Friday 09 July 2004
Newspaper: Bookseller
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 682 | Page: 25 | Tags: none

CLAMMING UP COU NTRY LIF E • AUGUST 3 , 2000 61 NE MAN AND HIS DOG commentator Robin Page

... happened in the Mediterranean, where ships discharging ballast water they'd picked up in far-away climes imported an unpleasant jellyfish that has spoiled the bathing off large areas of the coast. The examples of this stupidity are endless, even in Britain. Grey ...

Published: Thursday 03 August 2000
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1033 | Page: 63 | Tags: none

I'll never be a countryman

... miss the charade that is modern hunting now that the season is over. Mostly, though, I feel as lost here in Dorset as a jellyfish in pig muck. My mother has informed me, not without a touch of Schadenfreude, that the carpet of blue that I painstabngly ...

Published: Thursday 05 May 2005
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 998 | Page: 59 | Tags: none

BOOKSELLERS’ CHOICE: SEPTEMBER PREVIEWS me both amused and pleasantly stimulated in appreciation of his sly ..

... She-Wolf of France, Queen of England is a beautifully written, scholarly book, as engrossing as a good novel. Following his Jellyfish bestseller last year, Guy Browning is back with another hilarious book, Never Push When It Says Pull, which gives readers ...

Published: Friday 10 June 2005
Newspaper: Bookseller
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 787 | Page: 32 | Tags: none

HUON MALLALIEU

... This is not a grotesque pottery bird, but a 9Y2in vase (Fig 3) with four loop handles and decorated with weird fish, eels, jellyfish and squid in light relief. It is a fine piece with a good range of colours and dates from 1903. Moving towards paintings ...

Published: Thursday 20 October 2005
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1132 | Page: 92 | Tags: none

christmas present View from Asda: Stephanie Bateson, book buyer “Asda is famous for really great, low prices ..

... United Years and the Sharon Osbourne sequel, Survivor: My Story—The Next Chapter. Karl Pilkington’s Happy Slapped by a Jellyfish could be the quirky humour hit of the year. Gerry Berkley, trading manager for books and games at Woolworths, is upbeat: ...

Published: Friday 12 October 2007
Newspaper: Bookseller
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 863 | Page: 18 | Tags: none

Hang the DJ: A Collection of

... life. I am biased because Guy Browning was born in Chipping Norton (home town of Jaffé & Neale) and I loved Never Hit a Jellyfish with a Spade. But Maps of My Life is a hilarious autobiography with beautifully illustrated maps. Guy has added to these ...

Published: Friday 11 July 2008
Newspaper: Bookseller
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 950 | Page: 32 | Tags: none

Memories are made of this

... the 160 tour buses cramming daily into the hillside town of San Gimignano. I pinned up emails complaining about plagues of jellyfish at Pawleys Island. I listened hawk-eared to tales oflocals suffering in Cornwall and north Norfolk as vacationers disrupt ...

Published: Thursday 17 August 2006
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1247 | Page: 98 | Tags: none

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... Lv(l)pfnfl Huf\‘nl l]l(l)s a litde way with E}[‘cro’s rctu}:n}(}?l _— : ealer North. Neither side vulnerable. cash in jellyfish (9) . Times with the little collection of a Dealer North. Both vulnerable. 10.1t’s a r(‘Jli('f‘\\'hvn the tenancy is over ...

Published: Thursday 03 October 2002
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1251 | Page: 135 | Tags: none