When Richard Benson was growing up he felt like 'the village idiot with O'levels' - glowing school reports aren't much help when you're trying to help a sow give birth, or drive a power harrow in a straight line without getting half the hedgerow stuck in the tines. He left Yorkshire to work as a jou[...]

The close-knit villages of the Dearne Valley were home to four generations of the Hollingworth family. Spanning Richard Benson's great-grandmother Winnie's ninety-two years in the valley, and drawing on years of historical research, interviews and anecdotes, The Valley lets us into generations of ca[...]

From the same hilarious wellspring of failure as the bestselling F in Exams and F for Effort comes this all-new collection of inventively wrong--yet totally real--test responses by students who don't know the answer, but come up with something better instead. Featuring crucial academic subjects incl[...]

Q: What happens to a boy when he reaches puberty? A: He says goodbye to childhood and enters adultery. Q: How can you prevent milk turning sour? A: Keep it in the cow. We've all been there. You've been studying hard, the day of the BIG test arrives, you turn over the paper, and 'what the *&%@ does t[...]

The Best Test Paper Blunders. Enjoy another healthy dose of hularious answers that canny students have given to the trickiest exam questions.[...]

If your vocabulary is more Bart Simpson than the Bard, then take comfort in this cracking, all-new, fun-size dose of "F in Exams", containing some of the most spectacular howlers from school English exams.[...]

If you don't know a cold war from a cold sore, then take comfort in this cracking, all-new, fun-size dose of "F in Exams", containing some of the worst howlers from school history exams.[...]

It's easy to teach yourself Sanskrit "Complete Sanskrit: A Teach Yourself Guide" provides you with a clear and comprehensive approach to Sanskrit, so you can progress quickly from the basics to understanding and writing Sanskrit with confidence.Within each of the 24 thematic chapters, important lang[...]