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Ask any man the first thing he would buy if he won the lottery and we guarantee you the answer would be - a supercar. It’s what every real man and every alpha woman aspires to - a blisteringly fast V8 engine, achingly high-tech design and style that snaps the necks of passers by as they watch ...

From the mind of New York Times bestselling author Barney Stinson comes the ultimate companion to The Bro Code - a handy reference guide crafted for today's active Bro. With new rules, inspirations, and wisdom, coupled with classics staples from the original Code, Bro on the Go is designed to qu...

Jaquie's guide to all things important to the modern woman, from food and your body, to animals, birds and the environment, fashion and being cool, love, romance and dating, and politics. If you find Jaquie boring (unlikely), she's included some recipes, quizzes and puzzles for your enjoyment. J...

The mysterious Stig, "Top Gear"'s resident racing driver and one of the most popular members of the "TG" team, has finally got a book of his own. But you'll have to work hard to find him, as he's been cleverly concealed in a series of brilliantly drawn scenes. You might spot him ...

"The QI Annuals" are the nearest things to having the hit BBC1 TV show live in your living room. Top comedians and brainiacs, from Stephen Fry and Alan Davies to guests such as Phill Jupitus, Jo Brand, Clive Anderson, Jeremy Clarkson and Rowan Atkinson, have joined top cartoonists and illu...

Where do we come from? Who created us? Why are we here? These are questions that have sporadically interested people since the dawn of time, but whose answers have continually eluded us. Now in their new book, Jon Stewart and "The Daily Show" writing staff (who include the team behind &quo...

 Presents a compendium of popular misconceptions, misunderstandings and common mistakes based on common knowledge, culled from the fields of history, science, literature, and biography. How much do we really know about anything? As someone else once said, it isn't what you don't know that do...

Come with us now on a journey through time and space… Join Howard Moon, Vince Noir, Naboo, Bollo, Bob Fossil, Old Gregg, the Moon and all your other favourite characters on a unique journey in to the world of The Mighty Boosh. Incredibly funny, visually dynamic, surreal, musical, wildly cre...

Te Radar has written a series of yarns about his experiences and the characters he has met while living off the land. The stories feature events not included in the TV series of his experiences. The TV series follows Te Radar trying to live a completely self-supporting and sustainable lifestyle (...

A collection of the best moments from the 'Ricky Gervais Show' podcasts -- the world's number one podcast -- with additional musings and original drawings by Karl Pilkington, the show's unlikely star. Karl Pilkington, the Confucian like savant of the Ricky Gervais Podcast show, has led an extraordin...

A number-one bestseller, this is a comprehensive catalogue of all the misconceptions, mistakes and misunderstandings in 'common knowledge' that will make you wonder why anyone bothers going to school. Now available in this handy pocket-sized edition, carry it everywhere to impress your friends, frus...

A note from the editor: Dear Respected Online Customer, Welcome to the page of the first ever official Rudge Park yearbook. And thank you very much in advance for purchasing the book at the incredibly reasonable price they are bound to be selling it at. When I put myself forward to be the editor of ...

Octopuses have six legs. Oranges aren't orange. Bats aren't blind. Napoleon wasn't short. Vikings didn't wear horned helmets. Diamond isn't the hardest substance. Bank notes aren't made of paper. Testosterone doesn't make you aggressive. Cheese doesn' t give you nightmares. There is no such thing as...

As everyone knows, there are three ways of doing things. The right way, the wrong way and the Top Gear way. Although, on reflection, that’s usually just the wrong way, but faster and with more shouting. Anyway, the good news is that this third way of doing things can be applied to almost anyth...

When I'm in power there are going to be some changes around here, I can tell you. May's Britain is going to be a better place to live. Top Gear's James May is back with his hilarious and controversial opinions on ...just about everything. As well as writing about his first love, cars, James has a go...

Despite its evergreen, cross-generational fan base, there hasn't been a new Monty Python book by all the (surviving) Pythons in thirty years. On their fortieth anniversary, Monty Python Live! focuses primarily on their stage show and includes original material written for the book -- oral histories,...

A smaller, paperback version of The Mighty Book of Boosh (same content). 'Welcome to what will in no doubt be a groundbreaking work of collage / literature.' Howard Moon,  'Hey Camden children, Vince here. Hope you dig the Boosh book and all the groovy photos Bollo took. Skip past Howard's b...

Since its debut in 1997, "South Park" has been one of the best loved, most watched, and intensely controversial shows on television. The animated series about four 4th graders--Cartman, Stan, Kyle, and Kenny--has perennially been a critical triumph and a regular ratings monster. And it boa...

Hi-diddly-ho, true believers Ned Flanders offers up a helping handful of homespun and homeschooled hints for G-rated general audiences. Follow the Nedster as he leads you through the thorny debate over church vs. state, puts the focus on the Flander's family tree, and lists his forbidden words (a.k....

The Mighty Boosh is unlike any show you are ever likely to see, and one that defies description, the closest you could get to the unique style of Julian Barratt and Noel Fielding would be in the early days of Reeves and Mortimer, with their cardboard props and men with sticks. But unlike Reeves and ...

The nest is empty; the coffers full; the wife, for one reason or another, looking the other way. Time to chop in that ageing estate car in favour of something fast, noisy, powerful and above all impractical. You feel younger already! Liberated behind that hand-stitched leather steering wheel, there'...

The world is an exciting and confusing place for Jeremy Clarkson - a man who can find the overgrown schoolboy in us all. In The World According to Clarkson, one of the country's funniest comic writers has free reign to expose absurdity, celebrate eccentricity and entertain richly in the process. And...

Follow Fry, Leela, Bender, and the crew of Planet Express as they fend off hostile takeovers, risk life and limb on a no-holds-barred game show, protect New New York City from the Santa Robot's annual slay ride, save the world from the fiendish machinations of Robot Devil, confound terminators from ...

'Don't move! You're surrounded by armed bastards!' Viewers of "Life on Mars" could be forgiven for thinking that the police force of the 1970s lived by the maxim 'The rules are: there are no rules', yet it turns out that this was not the case. A fascinating historical document has now emerged which ...

THE BRO CODE provides men with all the rules they need to know in order to become a "bro" and behave properly among other bros. THE BRO CODE has never been published before. Few know of its existence, and the code, until now, has been verbally communicated between those in the 'bro'. Conta...

Containing the complete series 1 -4 of Richard Curtis' and Ben Elton's award-winning comedy starring Rowan as Blackadder and Tony Robinson as Baldrick. This is the first time that a complete collection of all four series has been released. This boxset will also include 'The Specials' - a selection o...

Featuring all the best bits from the 2009 annual plus tonnes of new features, "The Big Book of Top Gear 2010" will be a powerful force to match that of the TV show. There'll be more juicy revelations about "The Stig", the next instalment in the "Bigglesmay" saga, behind...

Ugly Betty: The Book is a one-of-a-kind companion to the wildly popular dramedy. Fashioned to resemble the ultra private and confidential white binder known as "the Book" (the Mode magazine mock-up prominently featured in the show), this book has a paper-over-board cover and is designed to look lik...

Starved for the whole truth, man? Take a bite out of this bitsy but beefy package, brimming with morsels of wit, wisdom and worldly knowledge brought to you by the one and only Bartholomew J.* Simpson. Get the hard–knocks facts of life from the guy who's seen it all, heard it all, done it all...

In the venerable tradition of the "AA Members' Handbook", "Top Gear" provides its own essential almanac for today's motorists, with information on everything from buying cars and car maintenance to taking your car on holiday in Great Britain or 'not Great Britain'. You'll find a mileage chart and ne...

Brace yourself, Clarkson's back. And he'd like to tell you what he thinks about some of the most awe-inspiring, earth-shatteringly fast and jaw-droppingly gorgeous cars in the world (alongside a few irredeemable disasters …). Or he would, if there weren't so many things competing for his att...

This is the indispensable compendium of popular misconceptions, misunderstandings and common mistakes culled from the hit BBC show, "QI". The noticeably stouter "QI Book of General Ignorance" sets out to show you that a lot of what you think you know is wrong. If, like Alan Davie...

The mysterious Stig, Top Gear's resident racing driver and one of the most popular members of the TG team, has finally got a book of his own. But you'll have to work hard to find him, as he's been cleverly concealed in a series of brilliantly drawn scenes. You might spot him in the crowds at an F...

Have you ever wondered why most books of quotations are stuffed full of rather pedestrian quotes by people you've never heard of? It's a shame because a really good quotation book, one which gathered the truest and funniest insights of the best minds, and organised them into 250 subjects, from ambit...

Get ready every Futurama and Matt Groening fan, here comes Futurama-o-rama, the very FIRST comic compilation based on the Emmy-nominated television show Futurama. It's a long way from making a pizza delivery on New Year's Eve to the bustling cityscape of New York in the 31st century, but for Phillip...

If you haven't yet memorized any of Monty Python's scripts, here's your chance. It's difficult to read this book without breaking into a broken English accent -- or at least without laughing aloud. Alarm luckless pedestrians as you gesticulate wildly with an halibut, learn how to determine whether a...

Over thirty years ago, a group of six Englishmen - well, one was Welsh and another an interloping American - rewrote the rules of comedy. Monty Python's Flying Circus, an unheralded, previously unseen half-hour show of sketches, hilarities, inanities and animations, first appeared on the BBC late on...

A facsimile of the Walmington-on-Sea Home Guard Training Manual recently discovered in the attic of a house in the town. Found in a trunk amongst a pile of Hotspur comics, it belonged to Private Pike and features his handwritten marginal notes on the text plus his personal jottings on matters of rat...

Mock the Week is back, with the perfect gift for anyone interested in Life, the Universe and childish smut. Whether you're seven* or seventy, this is the only guide to life that you'll ever need. Includes: Bad Things to Hear in a Maternity Ward: 'We're proud of the care the NHS provides for new moth...

PORTLANDIA is a tie-in to a TV show of the same name, written by the two creators/stars of the show. It is syled exactly like a Lonely Planet city guide but to the fictional city of "Portlandia" and the unusual residents who make it their home - a militant bike messenger, an artsy couple who attach ...