This illustrated manual takes the martial artist step by step through everything necessary to convert their skills for use in the ‘street’. The Pavement Arena is Geoff Thompson talking reality training...
For generations of Britons, Singapore was the international crossroads of the Empire, the ultimate colonial posting, the stimulus for writers such as Joseph Conrad, Somerset Maugham or Noel Coward. Can...
If the most useful French you learnt at school was 'un, deux, trois' when all you really wanted was 'soixante-neuf', then save room in your luggage for this tongue-in-cheek phrasebook and you'll definitely...
Revenge offers an amusing guide to the opportunities open to the person who suddenly finds themselves single again and is quite frankly pissed off about it. How do you get back at the person who dumped...
Ground Fighting is one of the most underestimated and yet devastatingly ferocious of all the Martial Arts. 95% of all street fights that are not finished within the first 3 seconds end up on the floor....
In his own darkly humorous style, Geoffrey Abbott describes such hair-raising categories as death by cannibalism, being sewn into an animal’s belly and a thousand cuts, and reveals the macabre origins...
The business of death can be seriously absurd, and nothing illustrates this better than these gruesome true tales. This gory compendium details the frankly ridiculous ways in which a number of ill-fated...
The behaviour of a Siamese cat is never predictable, as all owners well know. The calm of the Tovey household is once again torn to shreds when Doreen’s cat Seeley instantly loathes the new arrival, Shebalu,...
Sand a mushroom... Ring McDonald’s and complain about the food... Write a book about a previous life... Polish the ceiling... Plait your dog’s hair... Wash a tree. Bored to tears? On the bus, in a lecture,...
