Ivan Brackin: 5 books

The China Plot dramatizes an epic that could well stand as a sequel to The Last Emperor . It reveals an enthralling chapter in Asian history that has been overlooked for eighty years. In the l930's Pu-chieh, brother of the last emperor of China, was used by the Japanese military in an effort to establish...

Mama is a battle-hardened beauty of Tokyo’s famous nightclub circuit - her life spent feeding the egos of politicians, businessmen and celebrities. With Tokyo in trouble, suicides are rising so she decides to act in her own novel way, stumbling into a lot of lives and laughs while she and her bumbling old barman Kenji embark on a scheme to enrich her failing nightclub.

‘A funny thing happened on my way to the billabong…' Sure did. In fact, a lot of funny things happened on the 3rd Altrincham Rover Crew Australasian Expedition fifty years ago. Here's how my expedition from the UK to Australia missed its target by 5000 miles and ended up in Tokyo. In an old van...

Highway humour for any driver. New to the wheel? Laugh as you learn! A chuckle on every page, it lists 120 questions from Driving Theory Tests, that apply to road users worldwide. A great way to get some grins as anyone struggles through the rules of the road. In each set of wacky answers there’s a genuine response to help you remember on test day. Packed with original cartoons. Enjoy!

An entertaining novel centered around Britain's most popular indoor sport. Okay, perhaps the second most popular sport. Probably the only humour book written on the game, with lots of incidents that will be familiar to anyone who has been around the pub scene. Under the guiding hand of his canny old...