When first I appear I seem mysterious, But when I am explained I am nothing serious. What am I? A RIDDLE! Was that too easy? How about what goes ninety-nine BONK (a centipede with a wooden leg)? Or which famous book was written by Charles Chickens (Great EGGspectations, of course!). In this book you\"ll find a whole host of amazing riddles....

London. 1894. \"I am not a detective, chief constable.\" \"No, but you are a poet, a freemason and a man of the world. All useful qualifications for the business in hand.\" So says Police Chief Macnaghten to Oscar Wilde, in a Chelsea drawing room in the company of Arthur Conan Doyle....

An hilarious joke book from an hilarious writer! Will make kids and adults alike laugh out loud. Did those jokes make you laugh? Make you groan? Maybe a bit of both? There\"s a lot more where they came from. Collected here by jokesmith Gyles Brandreth are some of the best and worst jokes ever (plus a few riddles to keep you on your toes)....

Enter the world of Gyles Brandreth - broadcaster, actor, writer, former politician - as he takes us on an extraordinary journey into his past....

Pedantic about punctuation or scrupulous about spelling? You\"ll love this hilarious and definitive guide to 21st century language from grammar-guru Gyles Brandreth \"Brandreth excels... in all his linguistic joie de vivre\" Guardian Don\"t know if it\"s, like, okay to say \"like\"? Are your apostrophe\"s in the wrong place?...

This is the first biography of the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh - both royal, both great-great-grandchildren of Queen Victoria, but, in temperament and upbringing, two very different people....

\'I see murder in this unhappy hand!\' When Mrs Robinson, palmist to the Prince of Wales, reads Oscar Wilde\'s palm she cannot know what she has predicted. Nor can Oscar know what he has set in motion when, that same evening, he proposes a......

This work is set in London, 1889. Oscar Wilde, celebrated poet, wit, playwright and raconteur is the literary sensation of his age. All Europe lies at his feet. Yet when he chances across the naked corpse of sixteen-year-old Billy Wood, posed by......

In 1892 Arthur Conan Doyle, exhausted by his creation Sherlock Holmes, retires to the spa at Bad Homburg. But his rest cure does not go as planned....

The fourth of Gyles Brandreth\'s acclaimed series of Victorian murder mysteries, Oscar Wilde and the Nest of Vipers opens in the spring of 1890 at a glamorous reception hosted by the Duke and Duchess of Albemarle. All London\'s haut monde is there, including the Prince of Wales, who counts the Albemarles as close friends....

Oscar Wilde investigates a series of gruesome murders in Paris"s theatre world. Playwright and raconteur Oscar Wilde embarks on another adventure as he sets sail for America in the 1880s on a roller coaster of a lecture tour....

Brandreth pens the second witty installment in an astonishingly authentic historical murder mystery series featuring detective Oscar Wilde and his partner-in-crime, Arthur Conan Doyle....