Bøker av Niall Edworthy

The Curious Gardener's Almanac contains over 1000 entries of remarkable information about flowers, vegetables, fruits, trees, herbs, insects, birds, water, soil, tools, composts, climate, recipes, gardens and gardeners, myths, superstitions, biodynamics..In short it is a collection as profuse and variegated as gardening itself.

A VERY funny football book for all fansOver 1,000 slang words and phrases of hilarious football-speakHigh-quality wit from a bestseller authorThe perfect gift at Xmas and all year round A packed collection of dressing-room banter, tunnel talk, pundit-speak, gantry gaffes, classic clichés and terrace ridicule from the colourful language of British football. Short-listed, best-selling author Niall Edworthy brings sharp, high-quality wit to definitions for the rich jargon of the Beautiful Game. This dip-in anthology of terms is a celebration of the national game's terrace culture, a laugh-out-loud entertainment and essential handbook for all football lovers in Britain and around the world.Whether rolling off the terraces, yelled on the training ground, mangled in the post-match interview or muttered in the commentary box, the language of British football keeps on giving, a rich and peculiar dialect all of its own, peppered with spicy slang, clunking with commonplace classics and sneering with contempt and ridicule.Badger's Football Slang and Banter gives 110 per cent, leaves nothing on the pitch, stamping its authority with aplomb - and that little bit of quality - to create an absolute banger of a read for all football fans in Britain and the millions following Britain's national game from abroad. Sample EntriesBrown Trouser Time - Penalty ShootoutCultured Left Foot - A foot that studied Moral Philosophy and Fine Art at UniLung-Bursting Run - Any sprint up field longer than fifty yards, often fruitless, leading to the explosion of respiratory organs Massive Club - The status of every club a new player has just joined, usually one that won the FA Cup in 1924 but nothing sinceOrc - Northern fan, according to a southern onePrawn Sandwich Brigade - A military-style unit of bourgeois fans who eschew traditional pies for seafood products in focacciaTeacups - The go-to projectile of the angry manager at half-time

An absolute beauty of a book: an illustrated A-to-Z collection of over 400 curious, eccentric and hilarious words and phrases used by international players, village and club cricketers, a perfect handbook for the cricket fan, the wordsmith and the humourist. Beer Snake, Barnes Wallace, Bunsen and Buzzers ... Featherbed, Ferret, Flamingo and Footler ... Pickpocket, Pie Chucker, Pongo and Pudding ... Teapot, Toe-Smasher, Tonto and Twiddler ... The language of cricket is as rich as its history. Cricket jargon has ballooned in recent years, thanks to round-the-clock global television coverage, the expansion of competitions, new technological devices and live online reporting of Tests, one-day internationals and T20s.This charming collection brings together in one volume all the current buzzwords and time-honoured banter of the players, fans and commentators and delivers it to the cricket lover's armchair, smartphone, loo and bedside table. From Lord's to Lahore, Delhi to Durham, Melbourne to Manchester, Cape Town to the Caribbean, cricket is a universal language. Packed with curious words and expressions, new and old, zany and downright rude, this compilation will delight cricket fans the world over.Sample entries:Banter - Euph. Word casting a light veil over the bitter exchange of insults taking place between the batsman and assorted fielders. See also Niggle, Exchange of Pleasantries, Verbals Camel - Graceless and unathletic fielder, often ageing fast bowler, dispatched to a distant backwater of the outfield in which he is least likely to make a fool of himself. See also Cart Horse Nighthawk - A Nightwatchman on crack cocaine who comes

Based on the true story of the Nazi's search for the Holy Grail.

How do migrating birds know where to go? Are birds really descended from dinosaurs? How do birds have sex? This book sets about answering various questions that is there to ask about birds. It covers over 10,000 species in the world, including over 500 in Britain, some rare and endangered, some bizarre and beautiful, others common and familiar.

Is the glass half empty or half full?Brilliantly compiled and beautifully written, this is a rich anthology of evidence from both sides of any argument.