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... Crap Townsand Awful Postcards:a paeon to the glories of traffic islands. Delightful. BookScanN/R Guy Browning Never Hit a Jellyfish with a Spade Guardian Books, 13th, h/b, £9.99, 184354265 X Splendidly eccentric advice on dealing with life’s ordinary but ...

Published: Friday 04 June 2004
Newspaper: Bookseller
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 280 | Page: 14 | Tags: none

No Eats, Shoots this Christmas

... 194 and Atlantic’s The Cat that Could Open the Fridge sold 2,296. Amazon’s strong sellers have also included Never Hit a Jellyfish With a Spade (Atlantic). Eats, Shoots & Leaves remains popular, selling 11,253 copies through BookScan’s TCM last week to ...

Published: Friday 10 December 2004
Newspaper: Bookseller
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 329 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

Greater Gains K M Peyton David Fickling, £10.99, 038560811 X, June This novel set in the 19th century is a

... Montmorency and his noble friend travel across Europe. Their mission is strange:it is to try to recover some highly important jellyfish specimens. This is an imaginatively intriguing adventure with a blend of historical and scientific fact. House of Secrets ...

Published: Friday 18 February 2005
Newspaper: Bookseller
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 347 | Page: 32 | Tags: none

History Press now back in the black

... with six out of 22 employees affected still considering the switch to Marston. It has also started using “printer-broker” Jellyfish Solutions. The company has also restructured its editorial and marketing departments and is looking to recruit new editorial ...

Published: Friday 15 August 2008
Newspaper: Bookseller
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 376 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

Raymond Blanc A Taste of My life

... obsessed with maps as a child, so I loved this off-the-wall memoir of a far-flung childhood by the author of Never Hit a Jellyfish with a Spade. Episodes from his youth are illuminated by colour location maps showing the highways and byways of an early ...

Published: Friday 04 July 2008
Newspaper: Bookseller
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 487 | Page: 31 | Tags: none

When the truth is told in a tall tale

... the way that mothers always stand by their children regardless, and there’s your son inventing something as useless as the jellyfish. “Then as the book ends it becomes more personal. I was trying to use the idea of prayer in poetry, particularly the poems ...

Published: Friday 05 July 2002
Newspaper: Bookseller
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1265 | Page: 26 | Tags: none

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

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

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

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