The funny and subversive Queen’s Counsel cartoon strip has appeared on the law pages of the Times since 1993, delighting the legal profession and general readers alike with its accurate and biting send-up of the profession and its practices. In these pages, readers will delight in the characters of Geoffrey Bentwood QC, who specializes in boring his clients to death while not-so-secretly longing to be promoted to the bench; his sidekick, Edward Longwind, who takes lessons in pomposity from Sir Geoffrey; Richard Loophole of Loophole and Fillibuster, who does his best to bankrupt clients while working his associates to death and pretending to remember some of the law he learned at school; and Mr. Sprocket, the endlessly unsuccessful litigant whose lawyers will not rest until they have spent all of his money.

Lawyers Uncovered: Everything You Always Wanted to Know But Didn't Want to Pay 500 an Hour to Find Out

Comics & Graphic Novels

Williams, Alex Steuart

Defries, Graham Francis

Comic Strips

JR Books

Long ago, holidays were celebrated throughout the year with foods that were available only in that particular season, and although we still celebrate festivals such as Easter and Christmas, others such as Michaelmas and Twelfth Night have fallen by the wayside. In this entertaining and valuable book, the fascinating customs and traditions linked with these festivals and fairs are interwoven with a great many of the easy-to-follow traditional, classic, and modern recipes associated with them. These include such inspiring recipes as Dublin Coddle and Bacon, Cabbage, Potato and Cheese Bake for St Patrick's Day; Orange Blossom Cake and Violet Ice Cream for Mothers' Day; Easter Lamb with Red Wine Sauce; Halloween Broomstick Bangers and Pumpkin Custard Tart; Christmas Snowflake Cake; Gingerbread Ice Cream, Hogmanay Black Bun, and savory Twelfth Night Pie. Both experienced cooks looking for new ideas and complete novices in the kitchen are sure to enjoy this unique collection of tempting recipes, along with the history, fascinating stories, and traditions associated with the various festivals.

Porters: Seasonal Celebrations Cookbook

Cookbooks, Food & Wine

Wilson, Carol

Richard, Earl of Bradford

Cooking Education & Reference

A feast for all his many fans and admirers, this is the great Humphrey Lyttelton’s last book, a sparkling autobiographical kaleidoscope of memories, anecdotes, and entertaining stories from his colorful life, from his childhood as the son of a famous Eton Housemaster, through to his role as the irrepressible chairman of I’m Sorry I Haven’t a Clue. A Renaissance manmusician, writer, cartoonist, calligrapher, and broadcasterHumph was descended from a long line of land-owning, political, literary, clerical, scholastic, and literary forebears. One of his more notorious relatives was executed for his part in the Gun Powder Plot! Last Chorus draws on some of Humph’s long-lost autobiographical writings, as well a wealth of other material, including his never-before-seen private diaries, plus cartoons. Whether sneaking off when a child to buy his first trumpet, or wading ashore in Italy during World War II with a rifle in one hand and a trumpet in the other, or playing alongside such jazz greats as Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington, Humph was very much his own man, and he comes vividly to life in this engaging and witty self-portrait. Every Monday night from 1967 until 2008, Humphrey Lyttelton wrote and presented BBC’s The Best of Jazz, and he was, famously, chairman of the anarchic, award-winning radio program I’m Sorry, I Haven’t a Clue. He wrote nine books, composed more than 200 tunes, and has honorary doctorates at the universities of Warwick, Loughborough, Durham, Keele, Hertford, and de Montfort.

Last Chorus: An Autobiographical Medley

Biographies & Memoirs

LYTTELTON, HUMPHREY

Arts & Literature

The wife gave me breakfast in bed this morning . . . it flew off the plate when she threw it. I didn’t mind there’s something vaguely sensuous about a poached egg on quilt. I know why she was angry . . . I’d spilt cocoa all down her nightdress. Serves me right for wearing it.’”
Les Dawson was the comedian’s comedian, a man with a massive following in his lifetime who has become a true cult hero. Who can forget the out-of tune piano playing, the mother-in-law jokes, and his trademark fast-fire gags and routines? Collected by Les’s wife, Tracy, this treasure trove of unseen and previously unpublished Les Dawson material was culled from his notebooks and diaries. Les’s determination to hone his material is clear from the boxes of handwritten gags and routines he left behind, each page funnier and more outrageous than the next. Heading after heading is followed by pages of one-liners as well as inventive letters, radio and television routines, silly drawings, and crazy, off-the-wall stories. Additionally, there are Les’s often poignant diary entries from the early days when he was a Hoover salesman struggling to make it on stage. This is a rich and fabulous feast indeed, and one that will be devoured by Les Dawson’s countless fans.

Les Dawson's Secret Notebooks

Humor & Entertainment

Humor

Michael Winner, archetypal eater and restaurant critic, is an inspiration to all. I’ve had jackets taken in four or five times each as I became the incredible shrinking man. What’s more I’ve not only lost three and a half stone, I’ve kept it off!” In this helpful guidebook, Michael shares the secret of his success with the all the good humor of a bon viveur and lover of life. In his usual no-holds-barred way Michael shows how to lose weight and not give up favorite foods.

Michael Winner's Fat Pig Diet

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Winner, Michael

Diets & Weight Loss

In this compelling and moving account of the marvelous George Melly’s last five years on- and off-stage, the eminent jazz trumpeter Digby Fairweather captures Melly as never before. He vividly recalls the many gigs, recording and drinking sessions, the performances, the characters they me,t and the unexpected and unscripted encounters, as well as their conversations and friendship. Anyone who has seen George Melly on stage will know how outrageous and captivating he can be. But there is another side to him: his erudition, his fame as an expert on Surrealism, his passion for angling, his sexual appetite, and more. Even in his last year, although very ill and growing ever more deaf, Melly’s sense of fun and his love of music kept him singing to the end.

On the Road with George Melly: The Final Bows of a Legend

Fairweather, Digby

The glittering prizes

Adam Morris, Alan Parks, Mike Clode, Anna Cunnginham, Barbara Ransome and the others leave Cambridge University to discover varying degrees of satisfaction, success and material comfort. But over all of them lies the common memory of those heady, golden days spent in unravelling the knots of friendship, in exploratory sex and in Badinage, that none of them will ever quite forget.A compelling story, "The Glittering Prizes" reflects the changing attitudes and styles of a generaton that went to Cambridge in the fifties.The subject of a highly acclaimed television series starring Tom Conti, "The Glitter Prizes" is a witty, incisive, beautifully written evocation of an era and its children.

The Glittering Prizes

Literature & Fiction

Raphael,Frederic

Genre Fiction

Fame and Fortune

Fame and Fortune is the long-awaited continuation of Frederic Raphael’s best-selling novel The Glittering Prizes, which followed a generation of Cambridge graduates into the academic and media world of the 1960s. In this new book, Successful novelist and screenwriter Adam Morris, now in his late forties, remains the central character, but many of his contemporaries continue to feature in his life. These include the ambitious and endlessly scheming movie director Mike Clode; the Australian-born TV star Alan Parks, who now seems to front every other serious or semi-serious program on TV; and Joyce Hadleigh, whose career on TV Alan has fosteredjust as years earlier at Cambridge, he fathered her child whom Dan Bradley, now a primary school headmaster in Wandsworth, raised as his own. The vivid complexity of Fame and Fortune reflects not only the nature of London life in the era of Margaret Thatcher but also the changing attitudes and lifestyles of a younger generation. Adam and his wife Barbara find themselves faced with the defection of their son, Tom, to a Christian sect that leads him to drop out of university and desert his family a situation that is compounded, with disconcerting consequences, when their beautiful, successful daughter Rachel meets Adam’s college friend Bill Bourne, the son of a scouse docker, now a professor in California. In varying ways, the other characters too discover the fragility of the success and happiness they had enjoyed, as violence and death play cruel, sudden parts in their lives.

Literary

Recently returned from the dead, Alan Coren finds that the world has changed little in his absence: children still turn to Winston Churchill to save them from school dinners; Clark Gable snugglesas everagainst the bristly chest of his lover Errol Flynn (despite having been captured on video by the entire British delegation of a Hong Kong sales conference); and hysterectomies continue to be performed by enthusiastic poulterers. As for Coren himself, despite bearing the distinguished rank of full colonel in the Confederate Air Force, he remains plagued by recurring nightmares that his membership of the P.G. Wodehouse Society has been poached by a Polish imposter in spats. England’s best-loved humorist finds time to explain why Cannon & Ball have relaunched themselves as Pride & Prejudice; to work out that if J.K. Rowling had put all her Harry Potter income on Archer’s Folly in the 3.15 at Haydock Park she would be richer than Bill Gates; and to reveal exactly why he took Princess Michael of Kent to see the smuttiest statue in London.

69 for 1

COREN, Alan

How to Hepburn, Karen Karbo’s sleek, contemporary reassessment of one of America’s greatest icons, takes us on a spin through the great Kate’s long, eventful life, with an aim toward seeing what we can glean from the First Lady of Cinema. One part How Proust Can Change Your Life and one part Why Sinatra Matters, How to Hepburn teases some unexpected lessons from the life of a woman whose freewheeling, pants-wearing determination redefined the image of the independent woman while eventually endearing her to the world. This witty, provocative gem is full of no-nonsense Hepburn-style commentary on subjects such as: making denial work for you; the importance of being brash, facing fear, and always having an aviator in your life; learning why and how to lie; the benefits of discretion; making the most of a dysfunctional relationship; and the power of forgiving your parents. Thrilling fans of the notoriously independent actress, award-winner Karen Karbo presents a gusty guidebook to harnessing your inner Hepburn, and living life on your own terms.

How to Hepburn

Karen Karbo

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