Humour - Books By George

■ REVIEW: The Mammoth Book of Insults
Not all insults but still good value

If you’ve ever struggled to come up with the perfect insult to hurl at an annoying sibling/co-worker/spouse, this could be the perfect book for you. It’s packed full of witty, blunt, clever and even slightly corny insults. They range from the very clean to the just ever-so-slightly PG-rated and are broken down into categories, meaning […]

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■ REVIEW: Stuff the Planet
Tree-huggers should stop reading now

Humour

Okay you tree-hugging, hairy armpit-toting hippies, look away now. This book isn’t for you. We’ve heard plenty about why global warming is a bad thing, but what about the flipside? Peter Janssen takes an irreverent look at global warming in this book, illustrated by Malcolm Evans. It includes cartoons and words on the debate over

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■ REVIEW: Coffee With Groucho Marx | Coffee With Oscar Wilde
Getting to know them over coffee

Humour, People

Now here’s a cutesy idea: a series of dramatised biographies that allow the reader to travel back in time and spend an hour or so with some of the more interesting people in history. Coffee With Groucho, by Simon Louvish, features the Marx brother who could have been the king of Movember, while Coffee With

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■ REVIEW: Motor Mouth
Second in series as fun as the first

Humour, Mysteries & thrillers

Alexandra Barnaby (better known to her friends as Barney) and race-car driver Sam Hooker are back in a new novel that follows on from the best-selling Metro Girl. Barney is now Sam’s raceday spotter and during the final race of the season she spots something going on in the infield that will change her life — things that will

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■ REVIEW: Shoot the Breeze
Are you from Yachtlandia?

Advice, guides & self-help, Humour

If you felt totally out of your depth during the recent America’s Cup racing, this book might just be what you need. Shoot the Breeze will teach you the language of the waves. Author and keen sailor Sarah Ell regularly competes in yacht races at club and national level and has a history with a

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■ REVIEW: San Sombrero
Fictional travel guide as good as a holiday

Humour

This cracking little guide to the fictional Central American country of San Sombrero is the latest offering in the Jetlag Travel Guide series. Described as the birthplace of tinted sunglasses and sequins by its Aussie creators, San Sombrero boasts such highlights as the beach resort town of Aguazura, home to the first-ever Madame Tussaud’s Brazilian Wax Museum

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■ REVIEW: Fathers' Wit
Dads, just for a laugh

Humour

Dads have a knack of being funny — whether it’s in a corny way or fits more in the realm of truly, side-splittingly hilarious. Maybe it’s a side effect of fatherhood, all the confusion and confuddlement of raising younguns serving to make fathers think outside the square. Sometimes even outside sanity. Fathers’ Wit is a collection

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■ REVIEWS: The Lazy Girl's Guide to Men | The Lazy Husband
How to train your bloke

Advice, guides & self-help, Humour

I’m sure we’ve all looked at our bloke at some point and wondered just what was going on in his head. This book has the answers you need, whether you’re looking for Mr Right or are hoping to lose Mr Wrong. This guide to the world of men, love and dating will tell you how

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■ REVIEW: The Spotter’s Guide to the Male Species
Know your blokes

Humour

Blonde bombshell Marilyn Monroe may have tried to convince us diamonds are a girl’s best friend but she was wrong. This little book is truly a girl’s best friend. Inspired by the classic bird-spotter’s bibles of the past, this little pocket or handbag sized book is a handy guide to blokes in all their glory.

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