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...

The ultimate Christmas bestseller of amazing facts, extraordinary stories, and eye-opening pictures is back!

Every year Ripley's Believe It or Not! storms the bestseller list as it unveils the latest collection of weird but true stories, bite-size, jaw-dropping facts, and amazing photographs gathered from all over the world. This year ...

Gasp at the paddle-steamer made entirely out of ice. Find out who invented the bullet-proof vest. Meet Fedy, the cross-eyed cat, who has 400,000 followers on Instagram. Discover the whereabouts of the volcano that blasts out gold. Shudder at the Australian mosquito that sucks blood from frogs' nostrils. Visit the city of Chefhaouen in Morocco, where every building is painted blue. And much, more more...

No Christmas can possibly be complete without Ripley's!

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.