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Books by Tim Brooke-Taylor
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Rule Britannia: The Ways
and World of the True British Gentleman and Patriot
Author: Tim Brooke-Taylor
Published by J.M. Dent & Sons Ltd on August 4, 1983
ISBN: 0460045431
170 pages
In this book Tim Brooke-Taylor tries to answer questions
about the characteristics of the British Gentleman and Patriot and to determine whether the species still flourishes today.
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Tim
Brooke-Taylor’s Golf Bag
Author: Tim Brooke-Taylor
Hardcover Edition
Published by Hutchinson
on October 6, 1988
ISBN: 0091737028
128 pages
Paperback Edition
Published by Arrow in June
1989
ISBN: 0099634600
128 pages
A humorous golf-themed book
written by Tim. Here’s a description from the book’s sleeve: “Tim
Brooke-Taylor’s Golf Bag is a picturesque eighteen-chapter golf book which comes complete with scorecard, allowing
you the opportunity to ‘play’ and read at the same time. Outstanding
chapters include the short ninth, ‘The Rules of Golf’, which answers all those perennial questions – does
the Atlantic Ocean constitute casual water? Do
you play it as it lies, or drop it on a dead body, an alligator or the Captain’s wife?”
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Tim Brooke-Taylor’s
Cricket Box
Author: Tim Brooke-Taylor
Hardcover Edition
Published by Hutchinson on May 22, 1986
ISBN: 0091638909
138 pages
Paperback Edition
Published by Arrow on May 19, 1988
ISBN: 0099547007
142 pages
In a follow-up to his book about golf, Tim tackles the
sport of cricket. The jacket says, “With this godsend of a book, Tim Brooke-Taylor
takes cricket out of the Long Room into the lunatic asylum. In the po-faced prose
familiar to Goodies fans, he gives invaluable advice on cricket tactics and choreography, defeating umpires and inspecting
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Books by Graeme Garden
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The Seventh Man
(aka The
Seventh Man: My Part in the Defection Scandal. By Geoffrey T. Alsop as told to
Graeme
Garden)
Author: Graeme Garden
Hardcover Edition
Published by Eyre Methuen on October 1, 1981
ISBN: 0413490807
140 pages
Paperback Edition
Published by Methuen Paperbacks on November 11, 1982
ISBN: 0413508706
144 pages
A work of fiction which is
supposedly the memoirs of a senior MI6 official who describes his involvement in the (real-life) 1951 defection of British
diplomats Burgess and Maclean to Moscow.
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Graeme Garden’s
Compendium of Very Silly Games
Author: Graeme
Garden
Hardcover Edition
Published by Eyre
ISBN: 0413147606
96 pages
Paperback Edition
Published by Methuen Paperbacks on November 12, 1987
ISBN: 0413147606
96 pages
An amusing guide to some very
silly games that only Graeme Garden
could devise. As an example, here are his rules for a commonly played variation
of Bridge called Suspension Bridge: “1. The four players are paired off. North
partners South, and East partners West. 2. The dealer shuffles and cuts the pack. 3. The dealer does not deal the cards.
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The Best Medicine:
Graeme
Garden’s Book of Medical Humour
Compiled and
illustrated by Graeme Garden
Hardcover Edition
Published by Robson
Books in 1984
ISBN: 0860512959
144 pages
Paperback Edition
Published by Coronet
Books on December 1, 1987
ISBN: 0340413689
144 pages
Another paperback
edition was published by St Martins Press (New York, NY)
on November 1, 1985
ISBN: 0312077092
108 pages
A compilation of medical
jokes, witticisms and anecdotes (including original contributions from distinguished doctors and famous personalities). Royalties from the book went to Action Research for the Crippled Child.
A Sense of the Past
Author: Graeme
Garden (with Graham Nown)
Published by Ward Lock
Limited on September 2, 1985
ISBN: 0706363450
128 pages
A tie-in to the Yorkshire
Television series presented by Graeme Garden. The book “provides a guide to the local and accessible sources of history. It explores the past that lies, for example, in photographs, shops and buildings,
swimming baths, graveyards, pubs, packaging and advertising…The book will provide a valuable source of interest and
reference for all those who enjoy making historical discoveries of their own, or who wish to develop their understanding of
the past and to preserve it for the future.”
The Skylighters
Authors: Graeme
Garden and Neil Canning (Illustrator)
Hardcover
Edition
Published by Oxford University
Press on April 1, 1988
ISBN: 0195206428
30 pages
Paperback
Edition
Published by
Methuen Publishing Ltd on April 28, 1988
ISBN: 0416046126
32 pages
A children’s
book consisting of witty rhyming verse written by Graeme about the “shadowy little band of character who create our
skyscapes.” The book also features watercolor illustrations by Neil Canning.
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Books by Bill Oddie
(see next page for Bill's birding & nature books)
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Toilet
Book or 11 1/2 Minutes a Day… and How Not to Waste Them
Authors:
Bill Oddie & Laura Beaumont
Hardcover Edition
Published
by Methuen
on November 8, 1984
ISBN:
0413569101
98
pages
Paperback Edition
Published
by Methuen in 1986
ISBN:
0413140202
98
pages
This humorous book was written by Bill Oddie and his wife Laura Beaumont.
The premise is to help people make good use of the average 11 ½ minutes per day they spend going to the toilet. This includes: “Keeping fit on the toilet, increasing your word-power, improving
your ventriloquism, learning to tap-dance, practicing origami, and much much more.”
From
the Top
Author: Bill
Oddie and Laura Beaumont
Paperback
Published
by Methuen Publishing LTD in 1985
ISBN:
0416511600
144
pages
“The
complete story of the hilarious ITV series” which was written by Bill Oddie and Laura Beaumont (and, as a bit of trivia
for Monkees fans, was produced and directed by Michael, aka Micky, Dolenz). It’s
the story of William Worthington, a bank manager who decides he wants to be a star (despite the fact that he can’t sing,
dance, or act). Determined to make it in spite of this, he enrolls in the Jolly
Theatre School.
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