Tired of receiving the same old advice from everyone you know? Anxious to change yourself in ways that will surprise even yourself? If so, you need to sample this riveting collection of quotes. It offers you a bevy of helpful suggestions, like... Don't moon a werewolf, Don't play leapfrog with a unicorn, and, even more importantly, Never trust anyone who, if he's alone in a room with a tea cosy, doesn't try it on. The Best Advice You'll Ever Get is a book which will change your life, moving it forward in exciting and challenging new directions. ...

Many wise words are spoken in jest but many more stupid ones are said in earnest, as this book demonstrates. How about this comment on a football match from Cristiano Ronaldo, for instance: 'The reason we lost is because we didn't win.' Or Ian Wright's, 'It took a lot of bottle for Tony Adams to admit he was an alcoholic.' Or Dave Woods' remark, 'The silence is getting louder.' It makes you think, doesn't it? There are many others: 'Abstinence is the thin end of the pledge.' 'A comedian who repeats old gags is a clear case of the tale dogging the wag. ...

Aubrey Malone is the youngest of nine children born to Hugh Dillon-Malone, a solicitor from Ballina, a town in the West of Ireland, in 1953. In this detailed memoir he documents his father's problems with alcohol, many of which were transmitted to himself, causing feelings of depression, lack of self-esteem, and on one notable occasion, a night in jail after a drink-induced car accident. He became a teacher after graduating from college but suffered much stress and ill-health during this time. Afterwards he turned to a life of writing and this too he documents ...

Shane has often been described as the most perfect sagebrush exemplification of Hollywood's Golden Age. A masterpiece of tone and technique, it was George Stevens' atmospheric valentine to an era if not a genre. Alan Ladd gave an emblematic performance in it. Jean Arthur excelled as the woman he falls in love with but cannot have. Van Heflin was pitch perfect as her decent, rough-hewn husband. Jack Palance won an Oscar nomination for playing the Luciferean villain Jack Wilson and so did Brandon De Wilde as the tow-headed Joey Starrett who ...

Scotland is famous for its sense of humour. This collection brings together quotes about Scotland and the Scots, as well as the sage wit and wisdom of some of its most renowned sons and daughters.  These quotes will make you smile, and by buying it you will be helping to make others smile as the proceeds go to fund the work of Spina Bifida Hydrocephalus Scotland.

This is the final part of Aubrey Malone's Ballina trilogy. It sees him expanding his orbit from his native town to Dublin and foreign countries. What hasn't changed is the yearning for home, conveyed through poetry and prose, fact and fiction, present and past.