Portico imprint: 123 books
History of the World in 100 Modern Objects
Middle-class stuff (and nonsense)
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2015
Since Spring 2013, Francesca Hornak has been writing a hugely popular column in the Sunday Times Style section, 'History of the World in 100 Modern Objects'. Featuring a different iconic object each week, the column explores contemporary middle-class life through the objects we fetishise. Each column...
A Smidgen of Shakespeare
Brush up on the Bard with Quotations, Trivia and Froli
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2016
If the mere mention of Shakespeare fills you with dread, evoking memories of arduous afternoons spent in stuffy classrooms with eccentric English teachers, it is time to reconsider that far from being three-hour marathons of unintelligible boring rubbish, Shakespeare's plays are in fact exciting,...
by Harry Campbell
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2015
The perfect companion to learning about the weather, no matter where you live or whether it is raining or sunny outside, an enlightening and entertaining miscellany of our planet’s most complex, diverse and powerful system -without which life simply would not exist.
Best Ever Classroom Jokes
Because some of us never grow up
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2015
What’s brown and sticky? A stick. Remember the jokes you told in the playground? The ones you annoyed your parents with for hours and hours? The ones you secretly still find hilarious? This book contains them all, and more. Clean enough for children but funny enough for adults, Best Ever Playground...
by Allan Pease
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2014
A book containing every joke guaranteed to annoy those who like to think of themselves as politically correct. It deliberately sets out to offend "prudes and those who take life too seriously".
by Graham Sharpe
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2015
Romping through crooked games, dodgy players, exotic venues and incredible hands, 'Poker's Strangest Hands' celebrates the strange history of Poker's most celebrated tournament, its World Championship event and the characters who have graced it with their presence, compiles some of the strangest things...
Why Do Buses Come in Threes?
The Hidden Maths of Everyday Life
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2014
With a foreword by Tim Rice, this book will change the way you see the world. Why is it better to buy a lottery ticket on a Friday? Why are showers always too hot or too cold? And what's the connection between a rugby player taking a conversion and a tourist trying to get the best photograph of Nelson's...
by BBC Radio 4 Saturday Live, Richard Coles
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2014
BBC Radio 4's Saturday Live, the network's flagship Saturday morning programme, has been on the air since 2006 and is hugely popular, with 1.8 million weekly listeners. Since 2013 it has featured a slot called 'Thank You', for which members of the public phone in to thank people for kind acts they...
365 Reasons to be Proud to be Irish
Magical moments in Ireland's history
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2016
365 Reasons To Be Proud To Be Irish is a year-long scenic route of jolliness taking in the quirky events, inventions, traditions, people, places and characters that make Ireland a country worth celebrating every day of the year. Within this humorously illustrated and entertaining book you'll find...
A Steroid Hit The Earth
The Catastrophic World of Misprints
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2014
A Steroid Hit The Earth' is a catalogue of errors, omissions, mistakes and other disasters, ranging from the straight typo or the ambiguous statement to the downright bizarre. Each demonstrates a sub-editor or proofreader taking their eye off the ball, to the delight of millions, every single example...
Leaves on the Line
What the British say ... And what they really mean
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013
In every walk of life, from relationships, to work, to politics, sport and the news, our everyday use of English harbours duplicities of meaning. We say 'I'm sorry' when we mean 'absolute nonsense', and write 'Yours faithfully' when we're thinking 'Sod you!' Jealousy, rage, love, affection we're equally...
The Ants Are My Friends
Misheard Lyrics, Malapropisms, Eggcorns and Other Linguistic Gaffes
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2013
A very amusing book. Or, possibly, an evilly musing buck - Simon Hoggart Linguistic mistakes. We all make them.
by Mike Haskins
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2017
An enormous collection of over 3,000 side-splitting jokes for every occasion. Jokes range from quick-fire one-liners and observations to rambling yarns, and from the classic to the modern. This book contains quips for every occasion, from the best man’s speech to the sales conference to the children’s...
Those Were the Days ... My Arse!
101 Old Fashioned Activities NOT to Do With Your Kids
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2013
Richard Wilson is like the naughty kid poking the ant's nest with a stick.'-Times Online Kids these days are all fat, lazy and thick and their parents dont know how to bring them up properly any more. Theyre glued to their phones, play too many violent computer games, communicate only in text-speak...