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The wit and wisdom of Benjamin Disraeli, British statesman and twice Prime Minister of the United Kingdom - with a new foreword by Lord Lexden.

It is to be A.J. Wentworth's final appearance on the scholastic scene. Once more he dons his cap and gown - or, to be more precise, Rawlinson's cap and gown - and returns to Burgrove for just one more time.

There is chalk in his fingernails and paper darts fill the air as A.J. Wentworth, mathematics master at Burgrove Preparatory School, unwittingly opens the doors that lead not to knowledge but to chaos and confusion. This gentle comedy trilogy was a runaway bestseller on first publication in the 1930s and retains a timeless appeal today.

In a mid-life moment, Paul Morison travels from America to England to discover his mother's roots. A chance encounter and uncanny resemblance leads him to agree to assume the identity of a famous singer for a while. But it's not just the unnerving attentions of the adoring public that he must deal with.

After a spur-of-the-moment day out with his boss' daughter in celebration of his 21st birthday, Polycarp Jarvis decides to quit his Bristol-based junior government worker job. Newly emboldened, he embarks on an erratic, engaging and not always strictly legal course through life. But what kind of person will he be by the end?

More outrageous than Santa Claus in a Speedo, When Elves Attack serves up a Yuletide feast of the "pure gonzo humor" the New York Times Book Review enthusiastically attributes to this fearlessly funny writer. Welcome to Tim Dorsey's slice of America - where nobody gets out unscathed and un-Santa-Claused!

Be it horror or sci-fi, cartoons or comic books, video games or Bond movies, no matter what we're into, geeks of the world have two things in common: intense and unconditional enthusiasm, and the relentless urge to know every last thing about the objects of our affection. Vintage Geek will not only test your trivia chops, but also celebrates a varied selection of 20th century fandoms, from fifties Sci-Fi cinema, sixties Star Trek, Tom Baker's Doctor Who and eighties Action Classics to Hanna-Barbera, 2000 AD, Star Wars, Spielberg, Disney, Marvel, Atari, The Twilight Zone and much more besides. With a foreword from Emmy Award-winning Simpsons writer and producer Mike Reiss, Vintage Geek also features a fabulous fifty celebrity questions from the likes of John Carpenter, George Takei, Sam Neill, Mark Millar, Tom Savini, Mark Hamill, Pat Mills, Yeardley Smith and Sam J. Jones.

When Kenny Thorpe, a contestant on Expose TV's Big Blubber, the hot new celebrity weight-loss show, is murdered on live television in front of 3 million viewers, the case seems pretty watertight. But Cherry Hinton knows there's more to this than meets the eye.

An ebullient Mr Finchley is about to propose to a lady he rescued from mishap when he is sent to Paris by his firm. This gentle comedy was a runaway bestseller on first publication in the 1930s and retains a timeless appeal.

Mr Edgar Finchley, unmarried solicitor's clerk, aged 45, is told to take a holiday for the first time in his life. He decides to go to Margate. But Fate has other plans in store... This gentle comedy trilogy was a runaway bestseller on first publication in the 1930s and retains a timeless appeal today.

When players in Stockwell Park Orchestra fear they may be getting out of touch with their local community, they invite schoolchildren to join them for a season. Supercilious Oakdean College pupils have never mixed with the rough Sunbridge Academy kids, and when things go missing and rumours spread, the situation threatens to turn ugly.

Sir Humphrey is playing Father Christmas at the local hospital, but he won't be able to buy toys for the children. Meanwhile, a plan to attract paying guests to the Hall descends into chaos when actors playing a resident ghost spend too long in the pub. Events somehow work themselves out - in the most unexpected manner...

When old steam boat the Batch Castle starts plying successfully as the Cluny Steamboat Company to Shrewsbury and back, it takes profit away from a taxi firm in a local border town. The firm's owner, Sidney Acton, plots against the new venture, and only time will tell if his sabotage attempts will bear fruit or blow up in his face...

With old-world charm and a military air, Mortimer Rothermere makes a most convincing conman. But even Mortimer's habitual sang-froid deserts him in the face of ruthless villainy and actual murder. Witty and a little wicked, Colin Watson's tales offer a mordantly entertaining cast of characters and laugh-out-loud wordplay.