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  • Yo Ho Ho Ho!
    Darren Bane
    Christmas! Cut-throats! Cribbage??!!??Christmas is coming, but the season of goodwill has bypassed pub landlord Ted Edwards. A critical review in a best-selling travel book adds insult to infamy and threatens to be the final nail in the coffin for Ted’s troubled alehouse, where the regular cribbage league context is the social highlight of every week.A prophetic premonition lea...
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    25,31 €

  • From Bard To Verse
    Darren Bane
    Darren Bane adds insult to infamy with this, his little poem book, a comical compilation of ridiculous rhymes, punny poetic (perhaps pathetic?) prose, laughably ludicrous lyrics and pitiful parodies.This asinine anthology includes a tender, touching, tribute to actress Catherine Zeta Jones, verses which feature fairly credible rhymes for the words ’vasectomy’ and ’follicles’, o...
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    14,36 €

  • Wicked Tongue
    Darren Bane
    ’A wicked tongue is worse than any fiend’ (Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales: The Manciple’s Tale, 1395)Tongues are wagging in a sleepy English seaside town after a well-respected couple die within weeks of each other.Businessman Sam Shepton killed himself. At his inquest, his heartbroken son blamed his mother, Amanda, branding her a ’black widow’. A few days later, he dis...
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    21,76 €

  • Mission
    Darren Bane
    How does a snowplough driver get to work on the morning of a blizzard? How does the non-sick coating stick to the bottom of frying pans? In 1982, the author heard an imponderable question for the first time, and made it his mission to compile, collect and create as many as he could ever since. This comprehensive collection of nearly 1,500 such ’imponderables’ is the result. Gre...
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    12,70 €

  • Uncle Prawn
    Darren Bane
    Des Measures has broad shoulders but even they are beginning to buckle under the burden he is being forced to bear, through caring for his elderly uncle. Des feels duty-bound and morally obliged, but the trials and tribulations related to his relation are testing him to the very end of his tether, and then some. The old adage says that blood is thicker than water, which makes D...
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    10,73 €

  • The Bane of My Life - A Dad's Diary
    Darren Bane
    Matthew was born three months early, and spent the first six months of his life at St Michael's Hospital in Bristol, England, which specialises in caring for premature and critically-ill newborns. This record of the emotional rollercoaster his parents experienced may give other parents of premature babies an idea of what to expect, and to inspire them to find the strength to...
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    14,57 €

  • Tales from the Toy Cupboard
    Darren Bane
    When little Lucy spends the first night at her grandparents' house without her own Mummy and Daddy, she feels afraid. So her Daddy gives her a new friend, a lovely bear called Patrick. Patrick waits for Lucy in the 'creepy room' where Lucy has been sleeping. Patrick is Lucy's special sleepover friend. But who will keep Patrick company when Lucy is not there? The answe...
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    3,69 €

  • The Furgle And The Frimp
    Darren Bane
    Murder and mythology, kidnapping and corporate corruption, love and laughter, thrills and spills, death-defying danger, stunning stunts and the craziest cast of clichéd characters ever entrusted with saving the world. It's all in this incredible tale of very hot curry and its anti-social after effects, an imminent alien invasion, an ancient Greek god, baked beans which glow in...
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    11,06 €

  • The Big One
    Darren Bane
    ''Life is like a rollercoaster ride, full of ups and downs...'' So says Tom Grey, a man who has been on a down for as long as her cares, or dares, to remember. But as his 50th birthday approaches, he feels a burning need to experience an up again, to feel like he is living, not existing; to make a memory. He needs an adventure, but if he is to achieve all that he wants to, th...
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    11,79 €

  • Dr U Who
    Darren Bane
    In 2005, television's most famous time traveller made a triumphant return to the Saturday night schedules, and began a journey which saw him achieve huge worldwide success and popularity. Times have never been so good. But it wasn't always this way. Between 1898 and 2005, the ''wilderness years'', the future of the beloved medically-monikered maverick, was far from safe. So w...
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    11,16 €