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This rich, full compendium includes selections from Ed Zern's previous books, many of his memorable Nash auto ads, and various short gems -- such as his delicious "Review of Lady Chatterley's Lover" (found wanting because there is too little information on the life of a rural gamekeeper). There are also major articles and a rich selection of his best "Exit Laughing" columns. Every serious sportsman with a funny bone will want this new edition of a great book -- the essential Zern.

'Wodehouse would have made an excellent sports writer' Sunday TimesAs Wodehouse’s biographer Frances Donaldson observed, it was vitally important to the boy Plum that he was ‘above average at games’. Luckily, he was known at school as ‘a noted athlete, a fine footballer and cricketer [and] a boxer’, and sport inspired much of his earliest writings, as well as some of his very finest and laugh-out-loud funniest. Wodehouse wrote with trademark wit on a rich range of games – and on cricket and golf...

Loosen up with a smile on your face... Marion Deuchars has practiced yoga for many years, and well knows the benefits it brings. Now she shares that passion with her illustrated character Bob the Bird, whose expressive poses will charm you into a reviving session of yoga breathing, stretching, posing, and mindfulness. Yoga for Stiff Birds rejects the clichés of studio photography in favour of a more immediate, inviting, look. With a few brush strokes Marion helps Bob into every position fr...