Saguaro cacti, desert landscapes, and the Grand Canyon may stand out as prominent Arizona features, but this scorching state is also home to bizarre places, personalities, events, and phenomena. These unique and quirky aspects are humorously displayed in Arizona Curiosities, a cross between a wacky news gazette, an almanac, and a humorous travel guide.

For years, Laurence Bounds has been pestering some of the most patient customer service departments from coffee companies to television studios and shaving companies to travel agents, with his maddening of letters. From HMV to AEG, the Met Office to the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra - everyone is a target. Discover years of hilarious letters sent from the Etruria Lodge estate by the eccentric but highly-educated, Laurence Bounds (B.A, B.Sc). So who is Laurence Bounds, we hear you ask? A part-time gamekeeper, Bachelor of Fine Arts, Bachelor of Science, inventor of the WaspZapper 838 (TM), producer of the famous Bombardier Potato, founder of The Mobile Judge Programme, dog food pioneer, betting tycoon, playwright supremo, wine magnate, children's life-size Henry VIII doll designer, poet, astrologer, published author and aspiring television producer, to name but a few. Upon buying this educational book, you may learn some of Laurence's tips and become a serial entrepreneur just like him. Discover how to complain the Bounds way, how to communicate effectively with some of the world's biggest companies, and how to deal with organisations when they are not keen on your ideas. Join him on a side-splitting journey, guaranteed to have you in stitches, as you meet his friends, relatives, and his beloved thoroughbred black Labrador, Alexander IX. This is Laurence Bounds, his life in his own words...

TheDirty.com is the heavily trafficked online gossip sheet created by an entrepreneur who calls himself Nik Richie. It mostly features vengeful revelations and defamatory admissions from angry ex-mates who wish to share sordid stories online. 'Sex, Lies and the Dirty' is Nik's confession of the backstage realities of running his website, including the slew of lawsuits and backlash he faces for the content that is published on The Dirty.

So what can be done with all these bankers who have frivolously frittered away the public's cash by overselling, underselling, short selling, boasting, rumouring and bullshitting, all in pursuit of unjustified and grossly overblown bonus payments in the name of greed? There are many options. Indeed, many suggestions were deemed unprintable in this tome which takes a look at the world's impending doom. In the meantime, here are 101 purposes for which these bankers are now useful - a lot of which will be cause for certain cats and bunnies to breathe a sigh of relief.

If You Won’t Say It, I Will is a sharp and fearless collection of satirical essays that slices through modern hypocrisy, political absurdity and everyday nonsense with wit and precision. From the self-righteous world of social media to the strange new rules of dating, politics and cancel culture, Gavin Tucker says what everyone is thinking but few are willing to say.

Written with honesty, humour and a keen eye for the ridiculous, this book holds up a mirror to the times we live in and dares readers to laugh at the things that usually make them uncomfortable. Whether he is dismantling influencer culture, examining identity politics or poking fun at society’s ever-growing list of unacceptable opinions, Tucker never misses his mark. If You Won’t Say It, I Will is funny, thoughtprovoking and impossible to read without wanting to share a line or two aloud.

Topical, fearless and entertaining from start to finish, this is a book for readers who enjoy smart social commentary and humour that hits close to home. It is the perfect conversation starter, and just as often, the perfect way to end one.