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  • Barmy Britain - Bizarre and True Stories From Across the Nation

    by Jack Crossley ...
    A hilarious compendium of all that's weird and wonderful about life in the British Isles - the eccentric, bizarre bureaucracy and outright oddity reported over the last year by the nation's newspapers, including: Guardian headline, 'Man with false leg hit with toilet lid.'; The Astrological Magazine, 'announces that it is to cease due to unforeseen circumstances.' Jack Crossley spent some 40 years ... Read more

    $5.39 USD

  • You Really Couldn't Make It Up: More Hilarious-But-True Stories From Around Britain

    by Jack Crossley ...
    After the runaway success of You Couldn't Make It Up, Jack Crossley returns with his latest cornucopia of wonderful anecdotes and strange goings-on from around the British Isles. In his many years as a newspaper journalist, Jack Crossley has collected literally thousands of these strange but true newspaper items. They are stories that you wouldn't believe if they weren't written down in black and ... Read more

    $7.19 USD

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