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This Little Piggie Stayed at Home
THE CLOUDSPOTTER’S GUIDE by GAVIN PRETOR-PINNEY
Gavin has been the creative director of the Idler for thirteen years, and his first book needs no introduction. Where Chris Yates loves to look down at the watery depths, Gavin likes to look up to the watery heights where the clouds play. His lovely fluffy book is a treat for mind and eye alike.
THE MYWAY CODE by DAN KIERAN AND IAN VINCE
Dan is the Idler’s deputy editor and Ian is well known to our readers for his Social Scrutiny forms. Their new book is a hilarious satire on our national obsession with signs and lines and rules and chevrons — all the absurd attempts to control road users that our bureaucrats dream up.
How Very Interesting: Peter Cook’s Universe And All That Surrounds It, by Paul Hamilton, Peter Gordon and Dan Kieran.
Compiled by Idler film editor Paul Hamilton and dep ed Dan, this is a wonderful collection of interviews with friends and collegaues of Peter Cook. How Very Interesting features anecdote and reminiscence from John Cooper Clarke, Will Self, John Lloyd, Auberon Waugh, Chris Morris and many more.
World’s Worst Jokes by Tony Husband
Tony Husband is well known to Idler readers as the creator of the Neville cartoon and compiler of the celebrity jokes page. Tony also contributes to Private Eye where he does the Yobs strip. Now he has collected together all the worst jokes he could find. And the result is very funny.
The new edition of the Idler is out today. As ever, it’s a stormer, and includes: an extract from DAN KIERAN’s new book, I Fought The Law; JAY GRIFFITHS on missionaries and cannibals; conversations with PROF RONALD HUTTON of Bristol University, expert on merriment, and GREEN of Scritti Pollitti; plus CORINNE MAIER on a trio of French anti-work filmmakers. We ask whether there is any point at all in going on anti-war protests or indeed going to university. And there’s writing from Penny Rimbaud, Jock Scot, Robert Twigger and Albert Cossery.
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The Idler joins forces with the men from QI for a celebration of curiosity and an attack on boredom, with plenty of William Morris
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A sumptuous compendium of one hundred pleasures, each lovingly described and illustrated.
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The US version of How To Be Free: "A work of crafty scholarship and
radical intent" - Michael Agger, Slate
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"Packed with wit, anecdotes and ideas ..." Word Magazine
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Take control of your life and reclaim your right to be idle.
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"Very funny...should be at the top of Tony Blair's reading
list." The Times
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Recommended to anyone interested in either angling or doing nothing.
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"Read this eye-opening and amusingly written book" Daily Mail
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The Idler is a bi-annual, book-shaped magazine that campaigns against the work ethic. It was founded in 1993 by Tom Hodgkinson and his friend Gavin Pretor-Pinney. The intention of the magazine is to return dignity to the art of loafing, to make idling into something to aspire towards rather than reject. As well as providing a radical and thought-provoking read, the Idler is also very funny. MORE …
"I do nothing and then I do something. But it's taken years of investigating idleness in all its forms to be able to achieve this. My discipline is borne out of concerted study of idleness." Will Self: Idler 2
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