Michael O Mara: 334 books
Bad Teacher
Hilarious tales of staff misbehaving
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
We can all recall a little rule bending in our schooldays - the Geography teacher who preferred to talk football than fold mountains; the sixth form head who let out the odd swear word. But pity the poor students who encountered the educators in this book. This hilarious exposé of life inside a modern-day...
Learn on the Loo
Making Your Me Time More Productive
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2015
At home or in the office, the loo is one of those few places where we have space to sit and think. And now you can have your own private lavatory lecturer help you make the most of it. Featuring mind-expanding trivia, extraordinary facts and enlightening stories from history, science, the world of...
Kipling
'If–' and Other Poems
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2016
‘If–‘ is, by British readers’ choice, the most popular poem in the language. This selection of Rudyard Kipling’s verse contains not only this classic, but many of his greatest poems, in testimony to a writer who possessed a precocious gift for rhyme and a brilliant ear for language, coupled...
Freudian Slips
All the Psychology You Need to Know
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
Freudian Slips presents the essential facts and findings of the fascinating subject of psychology in an accessible and enjoyable way, leaving no slip or phallic symbol unexamined. From psychoanalysis to behaviour therapy, via the subconscious and the unconscious, the book charts a path through the subject's...
From 0 to Infinity in 26 Centuries
The Extraordinary Story of Maths
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2012
We may remember their equations and discoveries from school, but do we remember who the men behind the maths were? From the theories of Pythagoras (and did you know he ran a secret brotherhood that studied maths, music and gymnastics?) to coining the term 'Googol', "Fom 0 to Infinity in 26 Centuries:...
by Les Dawson
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2013
A startling exposé of crime and corruption, in which private eye Marlowe - alias Les Dawson, fresh from his conquests in Come Back With the Wind - takes the lid off the underworld to reveal gangsters, shysters, traffic wardens, good time girls, bad time girls who get better, traffic wardens . . . Meet...
Keats
'Ode to a Nightingale' and Other Poems
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2016
Arguably the greatest of all the English Romantic poets, John Keats left behind him an astonishingly large body of work almost as remarkable for its maturity as for its beauty. Whether in longer narrative works like ‘The Eve of St Agnes’, or in such sonnets as ‘On First Looking Into Chapman’s...
A Classical Education
The Stuff You Wish You'd Been Taught At School
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2009
How many times have you wished that your history stretched all the way back to Greek and Roman myths and legends? Or that you'd been taught Latin at school? Or perhaps you wish you knew all about the great inventions and medical developments that have made our world what it is today? A Classical Education...
A Dyslexic Walks Into a Bra
A compendium of the best jokes, gags and one-liners
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2011
It's the classic gags that keep people laughing time after time, and Nick Harris has collected together a bumper batch of the best jokes that are guaranteed to have anyone rolling in the aisles. With jokes ranging from the classic subjects (man walks into a bar, an Englishman, an Irishman and a Scotsman,...
by Candice Hill
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2012
Life's way to short to fret about waistlines, ex-lovers or whether you've got the latest 'it' handbag. It's time for a return to old-fashioned glamour, to start enjoying life at full-throttle and have men falling at your feet. The Naughty Book for Girls shows you how to achieve all this, including:...
Black Cats and Evil Eyes
A Book of Old-Fashioned Superstitions
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
An amusing and scholarly look at the fascinating stories behind old-fashioned legends and superstition
This collection investigates the origins of history's most intriguing old-fashioned superstitions, many of which people still find themselves abiding by today. Hundreds of the beliefs passed...
100% Essex
Doing It The Essex Way
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2011
There's only one Essex - and due to the phenomenal popularity of the hit reality-show The Only Way is Essex, the county has transformed from somewhere to be scoffed at to somewhere to be celebrated. 100% Essex is a hilarious book that does just that! Crammed full of bling, banter, Essex birds and blokes,...
by Dominique Enright
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
An absorbing collection of Jane Austen's sharpest, most profound, and most amusing observations
*"A lady without a family, was the very best preserver of furniture in the world." -*Persuasion
Featuring wry insights on human nature, money, marriage, life,...
by Shelley Klein
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
A fascinating collection of some of the finest examples of Dickens' wit, humor, and comedy, containing wry reflections and razor-sharp remarks on such subjects as childhood and family, women and love, politics and wealth, and many more
*"Mr. Squeers's appearance was not prepossessing....