Author: Gyles Daubeney Brandreth
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780748100392
Category : Wit and humor
Languages : en
Pages : 93

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Author: Gyles Brandreth
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780356075440
Category : Wit and humor, Juvenile
Languages : en
Pages : 93

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Author: Gyles Brandreth
Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
ISBN: 9781402747137
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 116

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Presents riddles, jokes, and short stories about topics including money, school, animals, marriage, and sleep.

Author: Gyles Brandreth
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780340286401
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :

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Author: Gyles Brandreth
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0241427304
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 199

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Laugh yourself silly in this fantastic collection of jokes and riddles! WHAT'S BLACK AND WHITE AND RED ALL OVER? An embarrassed Penguin A sunburnt elephant A newspaper! Did those jokes make you laugh? Make you groan? Maybe a bit of both? There's a lot more where they came from. Collected here by jokesmith Gyles Brandreth are some of the best and worst jokes ever (plus a few riddles to keep you on your toes). From 'Knock, knock' to 'Waiter waiter', with some funny elephants and giraffes thrown in for good measure, there's also a bit of expert joke advice, so you can show others just how funny you can be! 'Very funny, and often outright silly' Guardian on Have You Eaten Grandma by Gyles Brandreth

Author: Gyles Daubeney Brandreth
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780340372340
Category : English wit and humor
Languages : en
Pages : 128

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Author: Gyles Brandreth
Publisher: Atria Books
ISBN: 1982127406
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 320

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For anyone who wants to make fewer (not less) grammar mistakes, a lively, effective, and witty guide to all the ins and outs of the English language, reminiscent of the New York Times bestseller Eats, Shoots & Leaves. Our language is changing, literary levels are declining, and our grasp of grammar is at a crisis point. From commas to colons, apostrophes to adverbs, there are countless ways we can make mistakes when writing or speaking. But do not despair! Great Britain’s most popular grammar guru has created the ultimate modern manual for English speakers on both sides of the Atlantic. In this brilliantly funny and accessible guide to proper punctuation and so much more, Gyles Brandreth explores the linguistic horrors of our times, tells us what we’ve been doing wrong and shows us how, in the future, we can get it right every time. Covering everything from dangling participles to transitive verbs, from age-old conundrums like “lay” vs. “lie,” to the confounding influences of social media on our everyday language, Have You Eaten Grandma? is an endlessly useful and entertaining resource for all.

Author: Gyles Brandreth
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1439172315
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 341

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In this new installment in the engaging mystery series Booklist called “pitch-perfect” and “enthralling”—currently in development as a BBC television series—the incomparable playwright, novelist, raconteur, and now ex-convict Oscar Wilde faces his most fiendishly puzzling case yet. Oscar Wilde has fled to France after his release from Reading Gaol. Tonight he is sharing a drink and the story of his cruel imprisonment with a mysterious stranger. Oscar has endured the treadmill, solitary confinement, censored letters, no writing materials. Yet even in the midst of such deprivation, his astonishing detective powers remain undiminished—and when first a brutal warder and then the prison chaplain are found murdered, who else should the governor turn to for help other than Reading Gaol’s most celebrated inmate?

Author: Gyles Brandreth
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1416987207
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 402

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Playwright and raconteur Oscar Wilde embarks on another adventure as he sets sail for America in the 1880s on a roller coaster of a lecture tour. But the adventure doesn't truly begin until Oscar boards an ocean liner headed back across the Atlantic and joins a motley crew led by French impresario Edmond La Grange. As Oscar becomes entangled with the La Grange acting dynasty, he suspects that all is not as it seems. What begins with a curious death at sea soon escalates to a series of increasingly macabre tragedies once the troupe arrives in Paris to perform Hamlet. A strange air of indifference surrounds these seemingly random events, inciting Oscar to dig deeper, aided by his friends Robert Sherard and the divine Sarah Bernhardt. What he discovers is a horrifying secret -- one that may bring him closer to his own last chapter than anyone could have imagined. As intelligent as it is beguiling, this third installment in the richly historical mystery series is sure to captivate and entertain.

Author: Gyles Brandreth
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 0241427290
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Laugh yourself silly in this fantastic collection of jokes and riddles - the perfect gift for Christmas! WHAT'S BLACK AND WHITE AND RED ALL OVER? An embarrassed Penguin A sunburnt elephant A newspaper! Did those jokes make you laugh? Make you groan? Maybe a bit of both? There's a lot more where they came from. Collected here by jokesmith Gyles Brandreth are some of the best and worst jokes ever (plus a few riddles to keep you on your toes). From 'Knock, knock' to 'Waiter waiter', with some funny elephants and giraffes thrown in for good measure, there's also a bit of expert joke advice, so you can show others just how funny you can be! 'Very funny, and often outright silly' Guardian on Have You Eaten Grandma by Gyles Brandreth