Bluffer's Guides
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Instantly acquire all the knowledge you need to pass as an expert in the world of cars. Never again confuse your trunnions with your gudgeon pins, your big end with your locknuts, or your depressed hydraulic lifers with your floppy tappets. Bask in the admiration of your fellow car ‘experts’ as you pronounce confidently on the merits of the Yjob over the Tucker Torpedo and hold your own against the most opinionated of petrolheads.
The Bluffer's Men's Collection
by Mark Mason, Jonathan Goodall, and Martin Gurdon
Published 1 November 2013
There’s no escape from chickens. They’re everywhere (although Bahrain has the highest human to chicken ratio at 40 to 1). You’ll find plenty of other often-hilarious facts together with practical, historical and cultural information in The Bluffer’s Guide to Chicken Keeping, which lifts the cooking pot lid on the lives, lusts and quirks on the world’s most successful species of bird.
What changed the fortunes of the notorious throat stripper variously described as a ‘mascara thinner’ or ‘Mother’s ruin’ to become one of the coolest tipples around? The Bluffer’s Guide to Gin tells you what to know and what to say about a drink that started off as a cheap shot in the 18th century and found its niche on the palates of discerning post millennium bon viveurs – bluffers to a man (but just as likely to be a woman).