When a passenger check-in desk at London’s Heathrow Airport disappears in a ball of orange flame, the explosion is deemed an act of God. But which god, wonders holistic detective Dirk Gently? What god would be hanging around Heathrow trying to catch the 3:37 to Oslo? And what has this …

There is a long tradition of Great Detectives, and Dirk Gently does not belong to it. But his search for a missing cat uncovers a ghost, a time traveler, AND the devastating secret of humankind! Detective Gently’s bill for saving the human race from extinction: NO CHARGE
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Douglas Adams’ sense of humour is so strong, it could inject a bucketful of laughs into an obituary. Needless to say I wasn’t surprised when this book, his elegy for endangered species, turned out to have a welcome balance between laughter and melancholy.
Adams is joined by zoologist Mark Carwardine, as …

When his sozzled cousin Egremont (Eggy, to his chums) runs away to Hollywood, the Earl of Havershot fears he may be caught in the clutches of an American “red hot momma.” Before he can rescue Eggy, though, the Earl is stricken with a terrible toothache that sends him straight to …

6 BBC audio cassettes containing 3 wacky P.G. Wodehouse tales. Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit(dramatized by Michael Hordern,Richard Briers, and James Villiers); The Golf Omnibus (read by Simon Cadell) and Summer Lightning(read by Ian Carmichael). Comes in a wooden collector box.

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‘I have always collected football stories like other people collect stamps, and it’s great to get this opportunity to stick them in a book’ From the bestselling author of RICKY comes this collection of hilarious anecdotes about football, with stories about the stars themselves, the fans, the girlfriends, the managers …

Have you been attacked by a wolf-like creature in the last 30 days? Was it after the sun had set and under a full moon? If you answered, “yes” to both these questions, there’s a very good chance that you were bitten by a werewolf. You now have less than …

Nipping at the heels of the number-one best-seller, The Dilbert Principle , lampoonist Adams’ new book is another collection of managerial wisdom and Dilbert cartoon strips. This time, Adams lets loose Dogbert, a caricature of the management guru types responsible for turning those in charge into “fully functioning, paradigm-spewing management …

Pnin is a professor of Russian at an American college who takes the wrong train to deliver a lecture in a language he cannot master. Pnin is a tireless lover who writes to his treacherous Liza: “A genius needs to keep so much in store, and thus cannot offer you …

Cicero remarked that old age is a strange business. No one wants to miss it, he said, and everyone complains about it when they get there… Old age comes to us all, and Enfield wittily advises on how to survive its trickier obstacles, not least the people who suggest you …