
The Chelsea FC Miscellany
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Chelsea FC, as someone once observed, has always done what other clubs have done, but not necessary...

My Experimental Life
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For his first book, AJ Jacobs read the entire "Encyclopedia Britannica". For his second, he followed...

Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in Space
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What happens to you when you can't walk for a year? When you can't have sex? Or smell flowers? What...

Sign Language 2: More Travels in Unfortunate English from the Readers of The Telegraph: 2
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Would you take your toothache to a dentist called Wong Kwee Mau? Dine out at Cafe Buck Butt? Or book...

The Dead are Watching: Ghost Stories from a Reluctant Psychic
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Ghosts can transform an ordinary day into a mind-shattering nightmare. And when psychic Debra...

The Little Book of the East End
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The Little Book of The East End is a funny, fast-paced, fact-packed compendium of the sort of...

The Strange Laws of Old England
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Did you know that: It's against the law to check into a hotel in London under assumed names for the...

The Honourable Company: History of the English East India Company
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During 200 years the East India Company grew from a loose association of Elizabethan tradesmen into...

The Complete Nonsense and Other Verse
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'Nonsense is the breath of my nostrils', wrote Edward Lear (1812-88), and this collection...

Two Dogs at the One Dog Inn
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Dogs are reported for their constant barking ...and so begins one of the strangest stories you will...