Big Pants, Burpy and Bumface

What's your name? Is it Chloe? Jessica? Jack, Sam? Is it Emily? Rebecca? Matthew, Dan? ...Or is it Fart Bear? Noah Zark? Piggy Banks? Be grateful for your ordinary name - this funny, fascinating book is full of the silliest, the strangest, the weirdest and the wackiest names from around the world (and some of them are quite rude too)!

• Hardcover: 320 pages
• Publisher: Doubleday, 5 Nov 2009
• ISBN-10: 0385617232
• ISBN-13: 978-0385617239

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Busty, Slag and Nob End

Building on the phenomenal success of Potty, Fartwell & Knob, this new collection of extraordinary but true names goes a step further...

In Busty, Slag and Nob End, Russell Ash has compiled real names from around the world that are really rude and are of places and products as well as people. The result of painstaking research, each name has been thoroughly checked and authenticated: you will marvel at the range of naughty nomenclature and hoot at the unwitting innuendo.

From Harriet Nicewonger (born Derbyshire c.1876) and Connie Lingus (resident of Indiana, USA) to Dick Swinger (born Switzerland c.1842) and Blo Job (US immigrant from Slovakia, born c.1897); from Titty Ho in Northamptonshire to Dildo in Newfoundland; and from Cock Soup to Pee Cola - this compendium of sauciness is guaranteed to make you laugh out loud.

• Hardcover: 256 pages
• Publisher: Headline, 15 Oct 2009
• ISBN-10: 0755318706
• ISBN-13: 978-0755318704

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Top 10 of Everything – 2010 edition
We all know someone who thinks they know everything, but do they know which 10 people swam the Channel the fastest? Or which 10 countries eat the most meat?

From the basic to the bizarre, Top 10 of Everything 2010 answers these questions and many, many more, with brand new and updated lists and over 7,000 of the most intriguing facts about history, science, sports, music, movies, nature, people and places. And once you've discovered when the 10 worst airship disasters occurred, it's time to test your memory with the all-new Top 10 of Everything 2010interactive DVD!.

Crammed with quirky questions based on facts found within the book, this fantastic quiz is guaranteed to entertain friends and family of all ages for hours.

• Hardcover: 256 pages
• Publisher: Hamlyn, 7 Sep 2009
• ISBN-10: 0600617424
• ISBN-13: 978-0600617426

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Whitaker's World of Facts 2010
Whitaker's World of Facts 2010 is full of the most up-to-date, 'must have' information on every important subject on earth, with lashings of fact files, world record-breakers and 'top ten'-style lists - all lavishly illustrated with full colour photographs. It is the biggest and the best! This book is hugely entertaining and informative - it's a superb reference title for all the family.

Praise for the first edition includes:

"Russell Ash is the king of lists, the author of reference books that offer a short cut to pub-quiz stardom."
The Independent

"A Christmas read to dip into again and again. Essential Stuff."
The Sunday Times

• Hardcover: 320 pages
• Publisher: A & C Black Publishers Ltd, 1 Sep 2009
• ISBN-10: 1408115069
• ISBN-13: 978-1408115060

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