Perching on the porcelain can be very boring when you have nothing to do but poo. But fear no more, as Hugh Jassburn, in a phase of no-bowel-movement-drudgery, has put together a compendium of entertaining activities and informative fun that will make you want to stay put.

Bind: hardback

Pages: 112

Dimensions: 146 x 146 mm

Publication Date: 07-10-2013

Have you ever wondered how long it takes to digest chewing gum? What hiccups are for? Whether it's safe to fly with breast implants? Taking in everything from the outrageous (yes, Hitler was addicted to crystal meth) to the eye-watering (such as the renowned surgeon who accidentally cut off his patients left testicle) to the downright disgusting (like the cure for toothache used by the Egyptians involving dead mouse paste), this book proves that medical science is not for the faint-hearted, lily-livered or weak-stomached.

Pages: 128

Dimensions: 125 x 175 mm

Publication Date: 01-06-2012

This tongue-in-cheek dictionary gives you a crash-course in the strange new vocabulary of parenthood, with hilarious observations on everything from the alphabet blocks you will inevitably trip over to the lack of zzz’s you will be getting

Bind: hardback

Pages: 96

Dimensions: 116 x 116 mm

Publication Date: 04-03-2013

I have always thought that there is no more fruitful source of family discontent than a housewife’s badly cooked dinners and untidy ways…

Mothers, in order to stretch your limited food sources, implore your children to chew very carefully and slowly and they will therefore require much less food.

For tips on how to be a goddess of domesticity, a modern-day Beeton and a purveyor of familial joy, dive into this miscellany of hints on cookery from the Victorians.

Bind: hardback

Pages: 72

Dimensions: 70 x 113 mm

Publication Date: 20-02-2012

To ease the pain of teething, hang a dead mole around the neck of your baby…

If all medicinal concoctions fail, the next best thing is to pray. If praying also fails, have the offending limb amputated and hope that the instrument in use has been sterilised well.

For tips on how to cure a cold, avoid being flustered by flu, and curb the torment of teething, look no further than this miscellany of hints on health from the Victorians.

Bind: hardback

Pages: 72

Dimensions: 70 x 113 mm

Publication Date: 20-04-2012

This title offers wise words for the fathers. Being a dad is great, but nobody ever said it was easy. This book is packed with inspiring and witty quotations to help you keep going through the hard times and enjoy fatherhood in all its glory.

Pages: 160

Dimensions: 95 x 130 mm

Publication Date: 07-05-2012

Pages: 160

Dimensions: 95 x 130 mm

Publication Date: 01-06-2010

‘Delicious.’ I licked my lips. The wine filled me with joy. A picture of a vineyard drenched in sunlight formed in my mind. Sean drew me rudely back to the lounge of our semi-d. \n 'How can they be in liquidation if they make wine this good?’ \n When Caro and Sean find the perfect ten-hectare vineyard in Saussignac, it seems their dreams of becoming wine-makers in the south of France are about to come true. But they arrive in France with their young family (a toddler and a newborn) to be faced with a dilapidated eighteenth-century farmhouse and an enterprise that may never, ever make them a living. \n Undeterred by mouse infestations, a leaking roof, treacherous hordes of insects, visits from the local farm ‘police’ and a nasty accident with an agricultural trimmer, Caro and Sean set about transforming their ‘beyond eccentric’ winery into a successful business as they embark on the biggest adventure of their lives – learning to make wine from the roots up.

Pages: 288

The woman was one of those irritating expat types who felt she owed it to the world to impart on her all her superior knowledge of life in France. I realised that if I didn’t stop her now, she’d be bending my ear all the way to Bergerac.
‘Actually,’ I said, leaning in toward the woman, ‘I’m planning to integrate my way into the boxers of the first good-looking Frenchman I see. Can’t think of any better way to learn the language myself. You wouldn’t happen to know the French for "fancy a shag?" would you? Voulez-vous coucher avec moi just seems a bit nineteen-seventies these days.’

After one particularly bad day at work, advertising executive and confirmed city girl Melanie Jones decides to give up her old life in search of something new and simpler in South West France. With little knowledge of the country, even less of the language and just the memory of a disastrous school French exchange and a few day trips to Calais, she embarks on her adventure with a suitcase full of optimism and not a little bit of naivety. After all, how different can life in France be?
After a series of adventures with skirt-ripping tractors, handsome twin farmers, celebrity not-quite-beens, unusual toilets and a bonkers ex-pat community, all topped up, of course, with lashings of rosé, Melanie begins to discover that her new life in France isn’t quite what she’d thought it would be.

Bind: paperback

Pages: 352

Dimensions: 129 x 198 mm

Publication Date: 04-06-2013

Any mother could perform the jobs of several air traffic controllers with ease. Lisa Alther Say thank you to someone special with this fun and stylish book packed full of lovingly selected quotations and grateful words for a MARVELLOUS MUM

Bind: hardback

Pages: 96

Publication Date: 07-01-2013