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Albert Jack's Ten-minute Mysteries by Albert Jack
Category: Humour
Albert Jack now turns his attention to the mysteries that have haunted us throughout history. "Albert Jack's Ten Minute Mysteries" cleverly combines his research with riveting stories and hilarious observations. All life's most perplexing questions answered: UFOs, Crop Circles and Alien invasions Where ...Show more
It's a Wonderful Word: The Real Origins of Our Favourite Words by Albert Jack
Category: Reference Dictionaries Words
Did you know that an assassin is a hashish-eater and a yokel a country woodpecker? That Dr Mesmer mesmerised patients back to health or that Samuel Pepys enjoyed a good game of handicap? While we're at it, what have spondulics to do with spines or lawyers with avocados? In "It's a Wonderful Word", bests ...Show more
Loch Ness Monsters and Raining Frogs: The world's most puzzling mysteries solved by Albert Jack
Category: Paranormal
In this title, the world's strangest questions answered: What happened to the Mary Celeste? Where is the Mona Lisa?(clue: it's not in the Louvre) Is the Loch Ness Monster really a circus elephant? Will the real Paul McCartney please stand up? Who killed Marilyn Monroe? What was Agatha Christie's own mys ...Show more
Phantom Hitchhikers and Decoy Ducks : The Strange Stories Behind the Urban Legends We Can't Stop Telling Each Other by Albert Jack
Category: Humour
'Sometimes the truth is stranger than fiction. Was Sir Winston Churchill really a Druid? Did Charlie Chaplin lose a lookalike competition? Did The Who's drummer Keith Moon drive his Rolls Royce into a swimming pool? The man with the answers is Albert Jack...' - "Daily Express". From Walt Disney's frozen ...Show more
Pop Goes the Weasel: The Secret Meanings of Nursery Rhymes by Albert Jack
Category: Languages and Reference
Mr Jack has been nimble and he's been quick, searching through the history of nursery rhymes and he's found out all kind of plum tales, just like little Jack Horner. He's unearthed the answers to some very curious questions...Who were Mary Quite Contrary and Georgie Porgie? How could "Hey Diddle Diddle" ...Show more
Pop Goes the Weasel (The Secret Meanings of Nursery Rhymes) by Albert Jack
Category: Comedy/Satire
Mr Jack has been nimble and he's been quick, searching through the history of nursery rhymes and he's found out all kind of plum tales, just like little Jack Horner. He's unearthed the answers to some very curious questions...Who were Mary, Quite Contrary and Georgie Porgie? How could Hey Diddle Diddle ...Show more
RED HERRINGS AND WHITE ELEPHANTS THE ORI by JACK ALBERT
Category: Reference Dictionaries Words
Red Herrings and White Elephants by Albert Jack
Category: Reference Dictionaries Words
Bold as brass, cold feet, cock and bull, off the cuff, red herrings and white elephants. We use these phrases every day and yet have only the vaguest idea of where many of them come from. The origins of hundreds of common phrases are explained in this irreverent journey through the most fascinating and ...Show more
Red Herrings and White Elephants by Albert Jack
Category: History
Bold as brass, cold feet, cock and bull, off the cuff, red herrings and white elephants - we use these phrases every day and yet have only the vaguest idea of where many of them come from. The origins of hundreds of common phrases are explained in this book.
Shaggy Dog's and Black Sheep by Albert Jack
Category: Reference Dictionaries Words
The English language is crammed with colourful phrases and sayings that we use without thinking every day. It's only when we're asked who smart Alec or Holy Moly were, where feeling in the pink or once in a blue moon come from, or even what letting the cat out of the bag really means that we realize tha ...Show more
That's Bollocks! by Albert Jack
Category: Humour
"Sometimes the truth is stranger than fiction. Was Sir Winston Churchill really a Druid? Did Charlie Chaplin lose a lookalike competition? Did The Who's drummer Keith Moon drive his Rolls Royce into a swimming pool? The man with the answers is Albert Jack..." - "Daily Express". From Walt Disney's frozen ...Show more
That's Bollocks! by Albert Jack
Category: Humour
Gathering together all the strangest, sickest, funniest and most unforgettable urban legends, Albert Jack recounts them with his usual deadpan humour. But this is far more than merely a book of urban legends. Like his previous books, it is also a detective story. Exploring the real events behind conspir ...Show more