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ISBN / ISSN:
9781869711481
Footrot Flats : The Long Weekender order quantity
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NZ$ 90.00 each
Hardback
Author: Murray Ball
In Stock: 16
SIGNED COPIES
A Beautifully produced collector's edition featuring all of Murray Ball's 'Weekender' cartoons. These were cartoons that were run in the weekend newspapers. Many have never before been published in book form before. A unique feature of the Weekenders is the Footrot Flats 'photographs', where Murray has drawn our favourite characters onto colour photographic backgrounds. These colour photographs appear throughout. A beautiful work of rare Footrot Flats material that every collector or Footrot Flats fan must have.

First published October 2008, Auckland

Postage to UK NZ$55 (international economy 10-25 working days)
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9781869662684
Printmen order quantity
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NZ$ 13.00 each
Paperback
Author: Peter Vegas
In Stock: 4
DoP - August 2009, Auckland
105x153mm / 96pp
Softcover

A collection of simple fingerprint cartoons with short, sharp captions that will have you in stitches! Crushed to discover at the tender age of seven that he didn't have an aptitude for drawing, Peter Vegas decided to pour his heart and soul into perfecting the art of the humble stick figure. The result was an original, quirky and extremely funny stick-figure cartoon collection that went on to become three bestselling books. Now bored with the stick figure, Peter has moved on to a slightly healthier body shape: the fingerprint-man - which has provided endless fuel for Peter's unique brand of humour. Printmen is a little bit of quirky fun that is guaranteed to rouse laughs galore. Featuring just short of 100 clever drawings with ingenious pithy captions.
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9780575091542
I am Scrooge order quantity
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NZ$ 31.00 each
Hardback
Author: Adam Roberts
In Stock: 2
Marley was dead. Again. The legendary Ebenezeer Scrooge sits in his house counting money. The boards that he has nailed up over the doors and the windows shudder and shake under the blows from the endless zombie hordes that crowd the streets hungering for his flesh and his miserly braaaaiiiiiinns! Just how did the happiest day of the year slip into a welter of blood, innards and shambling, ravenous undead on the snowy streets of old London town? Will the ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and Future be able to stop the world from drowning under a top-hatted and crinolined zombie horde? Was Tiny Tim's illness something infinitely more sinister than mere rickets and consumption? Can Scrooge be persuaded to go back to his evil ways, travel back to Christmas past and destroy the brain stem of the tiny, irritatingly cheery Patient Zero? It's the Dickensian Zombie Apocalypse - God Bless us, one and all!
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9780719559792
Now We Are Sixty order quantity
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NZ$ 35.00 each
Hardback
Author: Christopher Matthew (decorations by David Eccles)
In Stock: 2
When Christopher Matthews was six, the poems of Milne always reassured him that other children were as foolish and naughty as he was, so on reaching sixty he decided that he should adapt NOW WE ARE SIX for an older audience. NOW WE ARE SIXTY is often hilarious, sometimes rueful and always thought-provoking. Some verses are about realising that we are not as young as we thought, whilst some about the more disconcerting problems of modern life; mobile telephones on trains, anti-social behaviour, traffic jams and the internet. Dame Dorothy Tutin, Martin Jarvis, Derek Waring, Geoffrey Palmer and Robert Dawes will bring voice to familiar rhythms and rhyme schemes of the master. Together they will create an audio performance to brilliantly celebrate Christopher Matthew’s reinvention of Milne’s curious mixture of comedy and wistfulness, sharp observation and daft whimsy.

First published 1999.

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9780571246922
QI: The Noticable Stouter Book order quantity
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NZ$ 26.00 each
Paperback
Author: john llyod
In Stock: 2
This is the indispensable compendium of popular misconceptions, misunderstandings and common mistakes culled from the hit BBC show, "QI". The noticeably stouter "QI Book of General Ignorance" sets out to show you that a lot of what you think you know is wrong. If, like Alan Davies, you still think the Henry VIII had six wives, the earth has only one moon, that George Washington was the first president of the USA, that Bangkok is the capital of Thailand, that the largest living thing is a blue whale, that Alexander Graeme Bell invented the telephone, that whisky and bagpipes come from Scotland or that Mount Everest is the world's tallest mountain, then there are at least 200 reasons why this is the book for you.

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9780061748790
The Double-Daring Book For Girls order quantity
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NZ$ 52.00 each
Hardback
Author: Andrea J. Buchanan & Miriam Peskowitz Illustrated by Alexis Seabrook
In Stock: 2
From the authors of the bestselling The Daring Book for Girls, comes this double-the-fun, double-the-adventure guidebook of stories, activities, facts, and games for daring girls everywhere.

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9781741107029
Where's Elvis? and many others.... order quantity
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NZ$ 22.00 each
Hardback
Author: Xavier Waterkeyn (illus Daniel Lavac)
In Stock: 2
Look through this pictorial book of astoundingly intricate drawings, and a lot of tongue in cheek, to find Elvis in all sorts of locations and amongst all kinds of weird and wonderful characters. Find the people who have faked their way from ordinary stardom to super-stardom, or even to becoming icons! And check out the ones whose 'after life' expectations didn't lead to the 'after life' cash-in they were expecting. Look for his blue suede shoes, one of his gold records or even a pair of his GI underpants!

First published August 2009.
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9780986452222
You're a Real Kiwi When... order quantity
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NZ$ 20.00 each
Hardback
Author: Justin Brown
In Stock: 2
You know you're a real Kiwi when....you have an answer for everything. Or in this case, more than 100 humorous insights into what it means to be a New Zealander.
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9780810983632
11, 002 Things to be Miserable About order quantity
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NZ$ 26.00 each
Paperback
Author: Lia Romeo
In Stock: 1
11,002 Things to Be Miserable About is a list of all the reasons not to wake up in the morning. Ironically enough, when you put all of them under one cover, it's actually very funny. This decidedly absurd stream of consciousness is perfect for sardonic and disaffected youth, for people seeking gifts for Traumatic Event Birthdays (like 21, 25, 30, 40, and, well, anything after 40) and for anyone else with an offbeat sense of humour. Enjoy.
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9780473142759
All Bull : Tales of an Angus Studmaster order quantity
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NZ$ 35.00 each
Paperback
Author: Robin Leech
In Stock: 1
DoP 2009 NZ
Harley Jenkins was born in the Darfield hospital in the spring of 1930 and has remained in the area ever since. After leaving school in 1944 he worked on his father's farm at Kimberley and, on a casual basis, for other farmers in the district. His foray into farming on his own account came in 1954 with the purchase of three pedigree Angus heifers. A year later he was to purchase "Floridale" only a kilometre or so from where he was raised as a child and from those extremely modest beginnings so began a lifetime of dedication to the fickle business of running a commercial Angus cattle stud.

Harley's expertise with livestock has seen him make a considerable mark within the stud Angus world. Aside from his ability as an astute judge of cattle he has been blessed with a quick wit and a lively sense of humour. This story notonly tells of his farming achievements but also dwells on the lighter moments of life and some of the ... more

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ISBN / ISSN:
9780413776693
Angels on Horseback order quantity
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NZ$ 32.00 each
Paperback
Author: Thelwell
In Stock: 1
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9781906032708
A Steroid Hit The Earth order quantity
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NZ$ 20.00 each
Paperback
Author: Martin Toseland
In Stock: 1
"A Steroid Hit the Earth" is a catalogue of errors, omissions, mistakes and other disasters, ranging from the straight typo or the ambiguous statement to the downright bizarre. Each demonstrates a sub-editor or proofreader taking their eye off the ball, preserving the humble misprint as a perpetual source of 'schadenfreude'. From the holy typo of 1631, when Barker and Lucas''Wicked Bible' exhorted people to commit adultery by omitting a crucial 'not' from the seventh commandment, "A Steroid Hit the Earth" reaches back in time to the days before modern printing and our own spell-check obsessed age. It is a joyous and irreverent paean to gaffes of all sorts that have caused confusion, consternation and outright offence among readers. It will be proof-read six times before publication.
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9781840247121
Blackboard Blunders: Spelling Slip-ups and Homework Howlers order quantity
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NZ$ 23.00 each
Paperback
Author: Richard Benson
In Stock: 1
"Jack bort a cak to schol and we all had a pis." "Captin Cok was a famos exploder." "I found a spare seal so I quickly sat on it." Children are at their funniest when they are trying to be serious, and their earnest attempts at mastering the English language are a veritable goldmine of unintentional humor, from the charming to the ludicrous, and from the profound to the X-rated. Enjoy this side-splitting collection of spelling slip-ups and homework howlers.
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9781869537135
Cowpats and Brickbats order quantity
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NZ$ 19.99 each
Paperback
Author: D. Henshaw
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Featuring 40 or so tall tales - most true, some not-so-true, but all entertaining and illustrated by New Zealand's best known country cartoonist and artist, David Henshaw. A note from the authors : Hard times and hard lives generate hard-case characters, and with them go a host of yarns. The Waikato is no exception. Tucked away beneath the veneer of success, green pastures and four-wheelers there is a background of years of hard labour and drudgery often rewarded by ongoing poverty. A generation or two down the track we all benefit from the sheer bloody-minded persistence of those families who turned peat swamps and untrackable hills into the multimillion-dollar dairy and sheep farms that now dominate the whole area. Those pioneers, and the more recent Waikato characters, have left behind a fair bunch of stories. There is an old saying that if you didn't laugh you'd just sit down and cry. I have no doubt that the latter happened fairly ... more
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9780718155735
Driven To Distraction order quantity
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NZ$ 38.00 each
Paperback
Author: Jeremy Clarkson
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Brace yourself, Clarkson's back. And he'd like to tell you what he thinks about some of the most awe-inspiring, earth-shatteringly fast and jaw-droppingly gorgeous cars in the world (alongside a few irredeemable disasters ...).
Or he would, if there weren't so many things competing for his attention first. So much to get off his chest.
The world according to Clarkson is a perplexing place, filled with thorny subjects like: The prospect of having Terry Wogan as president; Why you'll never see a woman driving a Lexus; The unforeseen consequences of inadequate birth control; Why everyone should spend a weekend with a digger.

Fearless, independent, surprising and laugh-out-loud funny, Driven to Distraction is full-throttle Clarkson at his best; a unique look at the joys, absurdities and frustrations of modern life. With wheels. Buckle up, get comfortable, and hold on tight. There's no one who writes about cars like Jeremy ... more

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9781869710392
Footrot Flats Gallery 1 order quantity
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NZ$ 31.00 each
Paperback
Author: Murray Ball
In Stock: 1
This Gallery series will include the very best of the Footrot Flats comic strips, as selected by Murray Ball.
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9781848270657
How to Break Bad News: Greetings from the dark side order quantity
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NZ$ 30.00 each
Hardback
Author: Jarlath Regan
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We all have a friend in our group that nobody really likes. Everyone knows someone in a dead end relationship they'd like to end easily. Every office has an employee who won't stop talking about traveling the world. In "How To Break the Bad News...The Easy Way", comedian Jarlath Regan presents the perfect way to tell that friend, 'Nobody likes you', to inform that clingy boyfriend that, 'It's over'; or to break it to that office worker that they're fired. These are special occasions and these are things that are too difficult to say out loud even though we want to. Jarlath's winning greeting card ideas, filled with humor and straight-talking advice, will mean you'll never be stuck for words again.
 
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9414084282756
Jock's Country Life order quantity
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NZ$ 20.00 each
Author: David Henshaw
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9780091930479
Just Like Dad Says order quantity
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NZ$ 33.00 each
Hardback
Author: Geoff Tibballs
In Stock: 1
'I won't lie to you, fatherhood isn't easy like motherhood' - Homer Simpson. Fathers come in many guises - wise or silly, strict or kind. They can make you laugh and they can make you cringe. They can drive you home and they can drive you mad ...In "Just Like Dad Says", wise and witty words from the likes of Billy Connolly, Jerry Seinfeld, Spike Milligan and Homer Simpson cover everything from the joy of being a new dad to waving kids off as they - finally leave home. Old and new, laugh-out-loud funny or wickedly dry, "Just Like Dad Says" is the best ever collection of quotes by and about Dad. 'My father only hit me once - but he used a Volvo' - Bob Monkhouse. 'Even very young children need to be informed about dying. Explain the concept of death very carefully to your child. This will make threatening him with it much more effective' - P.J. O'Rourke.
 
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9781423605843
More Chinglish: Speaking in Tongues order quantity
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NZ$ 25.00 each
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Author: Oliver Lutz Radtke
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"Chinglish 2: Speaking in Tongues" offers a fresh look at the unintentional but very funny creative misuses of the English language in Chinese street signs, products, and advertising. Enjoy 100 brand-new examples of this unique cultural heritage, which, due to efforts from the Chinese government to wipe out all forms of incorrect signage and advertising, is about to disappear.

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