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This is Britain rewritten in predictive text. One man and his
mobile phone gremlin take on the people, institutions and events
that have shaped this country, autocorrecting as they go and
uncovering some shocking home truths. So let's honour our majestic
Queer Vicar, the Right Honourable Primary Monster, the National
Death Device, and give thanks for that Bikini Inversion*; this is
an extensive love letter (or rather text message) to this land we
call home. * Queen Victoria, Prime Minister, National Health
Service, Viking Invasion
A comedy about football, fortune, and a fanatical fanWhen Rob
Cooper, editor of the anarchic soccer fanzine Wings of a Sparrow,
receives the latest in a long line of solicitors letters, he
suspects yet another law suit has landed in his lap. Instead, he
finds himself slap bang in the middle of a situation the likes of
which fans the world over have dreamed about since the birth of the
game. He gets the chance to be chairman of his rival football team,
giving Rob the chance to do to City what he, as a United supporter,
has always dreamt of doing. But when your dreams become a reality,
they very quickly take on a very different meaning. Sometimes they
can even turn into nightmares. Not simply a tale of revenge and
bitterness, this is a light-hearted story of one man, the great
game, a small fortune, and a season of personal discovery.
 Discover all the foul facts with history's most horrible
headlines: Victorian edition. The master of making history fun,
Terry Deary, turns his attention to the Victorian era. From
ridiculous stories of why burglars were scared of bogies to
how a snick fadger might kiddy-nap your spangle, it's all in
Horrible Histories: Villainous Victorians: fully illustrated
throughout and packed with hair-raising stories - with all the
horribly hilarious bits included with a fresh take on the classic
Horrible Histories style, perfect for fans old and new the perfect
series for anyone looking for a fun and informative read Horrible
Histories has been entertaining children and families for
generations with books, TV, stage show, magazines, games and 2019's
brilliantly funny Horrible Histories: the Movie - Rotten Romans.
 Get your history right here and collect the whole horrible
lot. Read all about it!
From the 1870s to the 1930s, American cartoonists devoted much of
their ink to outlandish caricatures of immigrants and minority
groups, making explicit the derogatory stereotypes that circulated
at the time. Members of ethnic groups were depicted as fools,
connivers, thieves, and individuals hardly fit for American
citizenship, but Jews were especially singled out with visual and
verbal abuse. In The Implacable Urge to Defame, Baigell examines
more than sixty published cartoons from humor magazines such as
Judge, Puck and Life and considers the climate of opinion that
allowed such cartoons to be published. In doing so, he traces their
impact on the emergence of anti-Semitism in the American Scene
movement in the 1920s and 1930s.
For anyone who loved St Trinian's - old or new - or loves a cozy
mystery on a grand estate filled with rather 'interesting'
characters. When an American stranger turns up claiming to be the
rightful owner of the school's magnificent country estate it could
spell trouble for everyone at St Bride's . . . No one can believe
it when the headmistress, Hairnet, instantly accepts the stranger's
claim, not: the put-upon Bursar, ousted from his cosy estate
cottage by the stranger the enigmatic Max Security, raring to
engage in a spot of espionage the sensible Judith Gosling, who
knows more about Lord Bunting than she's letting on the
irrepressible Gemma Lamb, determined to keep the school open Only
fickle maths teacher Oriana Bliss isn't suspicious of the stranger,
after all she can just marry him and secure St Bride's future
forever. That's if inventive pranks by the girls - and the school
cat - don't drive him away first. Who will nab the stranger first?
Oriana with the parson's noose? Gemma with sinister secrets? Or
could this be the end of St Bride's? Previously published by Debbie
Young as Stranger at St Bride's.
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