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... revealing inner workings. Trevor Day’s Youch! It Bites (Templar, 30th March, £9.99, 1840110244) shows spiders, snakes and jellyfish in close-up on the left, with graphic layout, and quirky text under gatefolds. Look at the mosquito at more than 30 times ...

Published: Friday 03 March 2000
Newspaper: Bookseller
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1203 | Page: 118 | Tags: none

contain bite-size pieces of information, topic panels and key facts. Also of interest is Large as Life (June, ..

... revealing inner workings. Trevor Day’s Youch! It Bites (Templar, 30th March, £9.99, 1840110244) shows spiders, snakes and jellyfish in close-up on the left, with graphic layout, and quirky text under gatefolds. Look at the mosquito at more than 30 times ...

Published: Friday 03 March 2000
Newspaper: Bookseller
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 153 | Page: 117 | 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

Oram, Hiawyn. Mine!. Big Book. 46cm.32p.Col.ill.Rees, Mary. pbk £15.99 Frances Lincoln (8.2003) 0 7112 2181 2 ..

... 2003) 1 84421 020 0 Hermit Crabs. 22cm.24p. Read & Learn: Sea Life S. bds £7.99 Raintree Publishers (1.2003) 1 84421 011 1 Jellyfish. 22cm.24p. Read & Learn: Ooey-gooey Animals S. bds £7.99 Raintree Publishers (2.2003) 1 84421 021 9 Leeches. 22cm.24p. Read ...

Published: Friday 01 August 2003
Newspaper: Bookseller
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 766 | Page: 30 | Tags: none

Humour and gift books

... 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

Lisa Milton

... 0719567017) My Sister’s Keeper (Hodder,lst, £18.99,0340835451) Nelson’s Purse(Bantam Press,lst, £20,0593051807) Never Hit a Jellyfish with a Spade ...

Published: Friday 09 July 2004
Newspaper: Bookseller
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 171 | Page: 25 | 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

History (South and Central America)

... Lovin’, Livin’, and the Whole Shebang. 23cm.256p. pbk £8.99 Citadel P.,U.S. (9.2004) 0 8065 2560 6 Browning, Guy. Never Hit a Jellyfish with a Spade: How to Survive Life’s Smaller Challenges. 16cm.192p.10c01.i11. £9.99 Atlantic Books (9.2004) 1 84354 265 X ...

Published: Friday 24 September 2004
Newspaper: Bookseller
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 2080 | Page: 46 | 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

BOOKSHOP WATCH

... started to open up a lead with The Cat That Could Open the Fridge, while another Atlantic title, Guy Browning’s Never Hit a Jellyfish with a Spade, has also proved popular. Narrowly missing out on a place in Foyles’ top 10 was one of the shop’s assistant ...

Published: Friday 17 December 2004
Newspaper: Bookseller
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 233 | Page: 29 | 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

Poetry

... £l.OO Semicolon (1.2005) 0 9533525 4 4 Carhoot, Wilton (Ed.). Slab, The. v. 2: Slab of Faith. 21cm.350p. pbk £9.99 Muesli Jellyfish (5.2005) 0 9546959 1 7 Celan, Paul. Lightduress. Tr. Joris, Pierre. 15cm.294p. pbk £7.99 Green Integer (5.2005) 1 931243 ...

Published: Friday 06 May 2005
Newspaper: Bookseller
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 470 | Page: 48 | Tags: none