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An essential pre-season read for anyone attempting to navigate the pitfalls of post-performance drinks.
DAVID ROSS, FOUNDER, NEVILL HOLT OPERA
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.
WASFI KANI OBE, FOUNDER, 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.
PAUL MCCREESH, CONDUCTOR
An amazing amount of solid fact disguised as frivolous observation.
The Sunday Telegraph
The Bluffer's Guide to Management would make waiting for a train a positive delight.
THE JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
Learn to be a better manager while laughing at the folly of it all. Very entertaining and well-written.
JOHN PURKISS, CO-AUTHOR OF BESTSELLING BRAND YOU
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.
LUKE JOHNSON, ENTREPRENEUR AND FT COLUMNIST
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.
RUPERT PONSONBY, CO-DIRECTOR, THE BEER ACADEMY
This guide will leave your brain full of beer knowledge, the way a hearty stout leaves your belly full of beer love.
EVAN S BENN, BEER COLUMNIST FOR ESQUIRE.COM & AUTHOR OF BREW IN THE LOU
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.
ALYN SHIPTON, WRITER, CRITIC AND PRESENTER OF BBC RADIO 3'S JAZZ RECORD REQUESTS
Hilarious! I'm insisting all my civilian friends read this as soon as possible!
CLAIRE MARTIN OBE, JAZZ SINGER AND PRESENTER OF BBC RADIO 3'S JAZZ-LINE-UP
Pithy advice on how even the most lax of hikers can hold their own when mixing with those craggy men of the mountain.
Scotland Outdoors
A witty rundown of everything from navigation to nutrition via good kit and angry cows.
Country Walking
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!
The Independent
A humorous insight into the world of hiking with a rucksack full of gems and handy hints.
Lakeland Walker
An irreverent, irresistible shortcut to becoming well-versed.
Laura Barber, Editor, Penguin's POEMS FOR LIFE
Cycling is a beautifully simple activity that enthusiasts love to overcomplicate. Rob Ainsley redresses the balance.
Dan Joyce, Editor, CYCLE (CTC magazine)
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.
Alexei Sayle, actor, comedian and author
Funnier than anything Lance Armstrong ever wrote. And certainly much truer.
Jack Thurston, Presenter, THE BIKE SHOW
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.
Tass Whitby, CYCLING PLUS
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…
DEREK REILLY, EDITOR, STAB MAGAZINE
When I read this, Mother Nature's womb engulfed me. Totally.
‘CHIEF’, STAR OF THE SHAPER, WINNER ‘BEST SHORT’, LONDON SURF FILM FESTIVAL 2012
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.
GREG MARTIN, EDITOR, WAVELENGTH MAGAZINE
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.
ROGER SHARP, EDITOR, CARVE MAGAZINE
Very funny. In fact, almost funny enough to eat…
Marco Pierre White, celebrity chef (and one-time caddy to the late, 'great' Don Revie, former England football manager
All you need to know to survive a dinner date with a golfer.
Tim Dickson, Editor of Golf Quarterly
If I'd read the Bluffer's Guide before my Ryder Cup match against Tiger Woods, I might have won before the 16th.
Costantino Rocca
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.
Arnie Wilson, Editor of Ski+Board
An avalanche of laughs. Prepare to be swept away by a clever mix of humour and surprisingly useful information.
Frank Baldwin, Editor of Skier & Snowboarder
An amazing amount of solid fact disguised as frivolous observation.
The Sunday Telegraph
The Bluffer's Guides present the means to apparent instant erudition without ever having to know or study anything.
Daily Mail
Iconoclastic, informed and very funny, these bluffers have tongues in cheeks as well as excellent palates.
Tim Atkin, Master of Wine
An amazing amount of solid fact disguised as frivolous observation.
The Sunday Telegraph
The Bluffer's Guides present the means to apparent instant erudition without ever having to know or study anything.
Daily Mail
An amazing amount of solid fact disguised as frivolous observation.
The Sunday Telegraph
The Bluffer's Guides present the means to apparent instant erudition without ever having to know or study anything.
Daily Mail
Bryony Gordon, Daily Telegraph columnist
Be seduced by this tongue-in-cheek guide. As witty and erotic as it is a handy tool – Rebecca Newman is a maitresse of her art.
'An indispensable pillow book for the would-be lover and an unrivalled source of erotic trivia. Who knew Cleopatra was a skilled fellatrix? Brilliant.
Rowan Pelling, ex-Editor of Erotic Review
Great fun. A perfect book for all those who love cricket or who want to pretend that they do!
Barry Johnson, Son of 'Johnners' and author of The Wit of Cricket
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.
Lord Bassam of Brighton, Lords and Commons Cricket Club
An amazing amount of solid fact disguised as frivolous observation.
The Sunday Telegraph
The Bluffer's Guides present the means to apparent instant erudition without ever having to know or study anything.
Daily Mail
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