An essential pre-season read for anyone attempting to navigate the pitfalls of post-performance drinks.

A very amusing, knowledgeable and enjoyable introduction to opera by someone who has spent far too much time at Glyndebourne and not enough at Grange Park Opera.

Keith Hann's whistle-stop opera tour brims with his passion for this great art form – and contains many more laughs than any opera I have conducted so far.

An amazing amount of solid fact disguised as frivolous observation.

The Bluffer's Guide to Management would make waiting for a train a positive delight.

Learn to be a better manager while laughing at the folly of it all. Very entertaining and well-written.

A witty dissection of the follies of entrepreneurship. It will surely bring a smile to the lips of anyone who has ever started their own company.

This book should carry a government health warning. It's a barrel of laughs. Goodall's crazy wit is intoxicating, exhilarating, and could seriously damage the heart. But what a way to go.

This guide will leave your brain full of beer knowledge, the way a hearty stout leaves your belly full of beer love.

No two jazz enthusiasts ever agree about anything. This witty, elegant book, mixing the erudite with the mythical, will bolster spirited disagreements for many years to come.

Hilarious! I'm insisting all my civilian friends read this as soon as possible!

Pithy advice on how even the most lax of hikers can hold their own when mixing with those craggy men of the mountain.

A witty rundown of everything from navigation to nutrition via good kit and angry cows.

Lots to interest and amuse in this light-hearted guide to the world of walking. The chapter on how to cope in an outdoor shop is hilarious!

A humorous insight into the world of hiking with a rucksack full of gems and handy hints.

An irreverent, irresistible shortcut to becoming well-versed.

Cycling is a beautifully simple activity that enthusiasts love to overcomplicate. Rob Ainsley redresses the balance.

When I began cycling in the ’70s the only book on the subject was Richard’s Bicycle Book which had a large section on the best way to kill dogs who impeded your progress. This book is lacking that, but in all other respects it is a very funny and useful guide to the world of cycling.

Funnier than anything Lance Armstrong ever wrote. And certainly much truer.

Weighs about the same as a top-end road bike, but is a much cheaper and easier way of convincing people you’re a cycling expert.

If you're a kook, especially if you're a kook, you will buy this book, for it reveals the many secrets and tricks of the surfing sub culture. I believe it will soon become a classic…

When I read this, Mother Nature's womb engulfed me. Totally.

Surfing is a minefield of jargon, specialist knowledge and expert analysis. If you want to bluff your way into becoming more of a ripper than a toe-dipper, pick up a copy of the Bluffer's Guide that's become every surfer's secret checklist.

Craig Jarvis has managed to fit the whole world of surfing into one book. No mean feat, but then, as surf journalists go, he is a 9th dan. If you can't bluff your way in the salty bits of the world after reading this, you've got no one to blame but yourself.

Very funny. In fact, almost funny enough to eat…

All you need to know to survive a dinner date with a golfer.

If I'd read the Bluffer's Guide before my Ryder Cup match against Tiger Woods, I might have won before the 16th.

I once wrote of an earlier edition of this book that it was one of the funniest books on skiing I’d ever read. I take it back. The latest version is the funniest.

An avalanche of laughs. Prepare to be swept away by a clever mix of humour and surprisingly useful information.

An amazing amount of solid fact disguised as frivolous observation.

The Bluffer's Guides present the means to apparent instant erudition without ever having to know or study anything.

Iconoclastic, informed and very funny, these bluffers have tongues in cheeks as well as excellent palates.

An amazing amount of solid fact disguised as frivolous observation.

The Bluffer's Guides present the means to apparent instant erudition without ever having to know or study anything.

An amazing amount of solid fact disguised as frivolous observation.

The Bluffer's Guides present the means to apparent instant erudition without ever having to know or study anything.

Bryony Gordon, Daily Telegraph columnist

'An indispensable pillow book for the would-be lover and an unrivalled source of erotic trivia. Who knew Cleopatra was a skilled fellatrix? Brilliant.

Great fun. A perfect book for all those who love cricket or who want to pretend that they do!

This guide will soon be resting in cricketing homes across the nation and should become required reading for every girlfriend who ever seeks a cricketing husband.

An amazing amount of solid fact disguised as frivolous observation.

The Bluffer's Guides present the means to apparent instant erudition without ever having to know or study anything.