Portico Catalogue Autumn 2012

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Music Humour Popular Culture & Reference Highlights

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Crap Lyrics 9781906032593 | £7.99 | PB 9781907554780 | eBook

The History of the NME 9781907554483 | £14.99 | HB 9781907554773 | eBook

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Mind the Bollocks Johnny Sharp 9781907554469 | £7.99 | August | PB 192 pages | 198 x 129 mm

The Story of Northern Soul 9781907554230 | £9.99 | PB 9781907554728 | eBook

• Notorious NME scribe Johnny Cigarettes (neé Sharp) follows up his hilarious 2009 bestseller, Crap Lyrics • A riotous rant through the utter ridiculousness of Rock and Roll • Contains raucous commentary on bad album reviews, dodgy advice in songs, rock star lies, the nonsense of hype and hyperbole, pretentious quotes and music’s most enduring, and hilarious, urban myths Popular music has always attracted the kind of morally bankrupt individuals who are too unhinged to hold down a proper job. And that’s just as well. After all, if your local fishmonger told you he’d just snorted his father’s ashes, you might think twice about doing business with him. But when Keith Richards says it, you think ‘Nice one, Keef!’ and have a flick through your iPod to find ‘Honky Tonk Women’.

Mind The Bollocks collects some of the finest stools of wisdom ever to fall from the foul, ill-educated mouths of rock stars. It digs beneath the culture of nonsense surrounding popular music and answers pertinent question such as: Are the X-Factor auditions all they appear to be? Is there really a musical frequency that can make you soil yourself? And which world-renowned rock guitarist sliced his own penis off?

The Ballad of Britain 9781906032548 | £12.99 | PB 9781907554766 | eBook

Johnny Sharp knows all about embracing the ridiculous having written for NME for many glorious years as Johnny Cigarettes.

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PORTICO HUMOUR

Shit London: Number 2 Patrick Dalton 9781907554735 | £8.99 | October | HB 115 colour photographs | 112 pages | 148 x 194 mm

• After a whole year of a London love-in brought on by the 2012 Olympics and the Queen’s Jubilee, Shit London: Number 2 delivers another hilarious dose of what Londoners have to actually put up with every single day • The follow-up to 2011’s bestselling, and utterly hilarious, Shit London • Visit www.shitlondon.co.uk for more hilarity or join Shit London’s 10,000 members on Facebook ‘Nobody is healthy in London. Nobody can be.’ Jane Austen Once all the hype, hyperbole and hysteria of the 2012 Olympics has been discarded in the nostalgia bin, Londoners will be left with all the actual tidying up. But once all that tidying up has been done, Londoners will then be left with the crushing memory that their streets, shops, architecture, culture and heritage was in a brutal state of dereliction. The truth is, no matter what Lord Coe, his PR team and the rest of the world think, the fact remains: London is still shit.

Patrick Dalton was born in London and has lived in London his entire life (not including holidays). Professionally, he is a radio producer who worked for many years at the BBC and later at the London radio station LBC producing a variety of news and entertainment programmes. Unprofessionally, he likes taking photographs. Patrick now works as a freelance radio producer by day and the creator/visionary of www.shitlondon.co.uk by night. As of 2012, Patrick is a regular contributor to Time Out London magazine.

Shit London 9781907554346 | £8.99 | HB

Rude London 9781907554452 | £8.99 | HB

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This hilarious follow-up to the bestselling Shit London continues to explore the mad, mad world of ill-conceived community and street ‘art’, pun-based shop names, creepy graffiti, God-awful translations, comical signs, bleak landscapes and many other unintentionally funny or disturbing scenes that real Londoners have to put up with every single day.

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365 Silver Linings

The Best of Mac 2012

Richard Happer

Stan McMurtry

9781907554681 | £7.99 | September | HB

9781907554612 | £9.99 | October | HB

25 black & white illustrations | 224 pages | 160 x 125 mm

Over 125 black & white cartoons | 128 pages | 180 x 245 mm

• The follow up to the truimphant 365 Reasons to be Cheerful and 365 Reasons to be Proud to be British, • A trip through history’s mistakes turned good – because every cloud has a silver lining!

• Contains a happy ending for every day of the year – a perfect present for as well as eternal optimists!

• From the Daily Mail’s perennially popular resident cartoonist, MAC • A hilarious collection of MAC’s best cartoons from 2012 • Following on from the bestselling The Best of MAC 2011, also available from Portico

365 Silver Linings is a book so full of stupid mistakes that you’d think the world would have given up and stopped turning. But, as the saying goes, for every cloud there is a silver lining, and 365 Silver Linings has one for every day of the year on the day it happened.

This brilliantly quirky and entertaining book demonstrates that while the old adage of ‘everyone makes mistakes’ may be true, some mistakes are so life-changing that they will be remembered until the end of time – and can even end up making life much, much better for everyone else!

Richard Happer is the bestselling author of 2010’s 365 Reasons to be Cheerful (9781906032968) and 2011’s 365 Reasons to be Proud to be British (9781907554391), also available from Portico.

MAC’s annuals have been delighting Daily Mail readers, and his loyal MAC fans, for the past decade, tickling their funny parts with his famous cultural sideswipes and hilarious stabs at the coalition government, international events celebrity shenanigans and the world in general.

In 2012, even though the world has changed considerably, with lots of events to celebrate and ridicule, MAC continues unabated in his quest for satirical gold stars, poking gentle fun at all the year’s hilarious headlines, characters and wicked news stories. What will be in this year's book?

You'll have to buy it to find out!

Stan McMurtry (MAC) has been a social and political cartoonist for the Daily Mail since 1970. He has recently been honoured with an MBE.

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365 Reasons to be Cheerful

365 Reasons to be Proud to be British

9781906032968 | £7.99 | HB

9781907554391 | £7.99 | HB

Mac’s Tee Time 9781907554186 | £7.99 | HB

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PORTICO POPULAR CULTURE

Mel Elliott and her husband Andy run www.ilovemel.me – a unique and successful brand that designs and sells its own range of products. Recently, Mel's products have been showcased in the Guardian, French Vogue, and various high street shops such as Topshop.

Bumper 1980s Activity Book Mel Elliot 9781907554797 | £12.99 | September | HB 120 colour illustrations | 144 pages | 276 x 210 mm

• 52 brilliantly unique and inventive hobby projects to make, do and create at home • The perfect gift for the 21st Century grown up who loves looking back to the future • Visit www.ilovemel.me for Mel’s amazing brand of unique products The Bumper 1980s Activity Book is a brilliantly entertaining, retro activity book for all those 80s-obsessed people in the world. The book is the perfect gift for the creative artist, crafter and hobbyist in the family, centred around the most popular decade of all time ... EVER!

Bumper 1980s Activity Book is the perfect purchase for the 21st century grown up who loves looking back to the future!

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Packed with 52 fun, practical, step-by-step guides to creating and making your own favourite art projects at home, Bumper 1980s Activity Book has one project for every week of the year. Fun projects include making your own paper dolls of iconic 1980s celebrities, colouring in defining 1980s record covers, designing and printing on your own mugs, t-shirts and badges, replicating retro 1980s typography ... as well as many other zany, quirky and unique projects to make and do from a decade that time simply won't let us forget!

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PORTICO POPULAR CULTURE & REFERENCE

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Ukulele Crazy!

Cool Science

Mike Evans

Daniel Tatarsky

9781907554537 | £9.99 | October | HB

9781907554698 | £8.99 | October | HB

Over 50 photographs | 112 pages | 200 x 200 mm

Over 50 colour illustrations | 128 pages | 148 x 194 mm

• Brand new series of ‘CRAZY’ titles from Portico, to accompany Harmonica Crazy!

• A quirky, fun and practical guide to learning all that you need to know about the ukulele • Contains songs to play, chords to learn, tips, techniques, as well as famous players and brands

• A brilliant, quirky and enlightening book to turn science enthusiasts into scientists • 50 amazingly simple but effective science-based tricks to wow your friends, family & children • The best present a man could ever receive!

To capitalise on an epic surge of modern interest in the instrument, comes Ukulele Crazy!, a quirky celebration and practical guide to all that you need to know about the ukulele. Over the past year the instrument has seen a 21st century renaissance in popularity – no longer is it most commonly associated with George Formby and a bygone novelty era. With chords illustrated for simplicity, expert techniques, songs to learn, as well as a history of famous players and brands, Ukulele Crazy is the perfect present for beginners and advanced players alike.

Mike Evans began writing about popular music in the Seventies as a broadcaster in local radio and as a freelance writer, his work regularly appearing in Sounds, Elle and as a contributor to Melody Maker.

As we all know, the geeks have inherited the earth and, it’s official, science is now cool! With Cool Science you can learn 50 amazing, simple and science-related tricks to impress friends your down the pub or for teaching your children too! This action-stuffed book is for action-man men who love to experiment with geeky tricks based around peculiar physics, mind-boggling biology and crazy chemistry ... and with more fascinating factoids than you can shake a Bunsen burner at.

Daniel Tatarsky's first book was Flick to Kick: An Illustrated History of Subbuteo. He is the author of the smash hit Everything You Need to Know About Everything You Need to Know About (9781906032999), also available from Portico.

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Everything You Need to Know About Everything

Everything You Need To Know About: The Universe

Everything You Need To Know About: Inventions

9781906032999 | £14.99 | HB

9781907554414 | £14.99 |FB

9781907554421 | £14.99 |FB

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PORTICO POPULAR REFERENCE

Lex Van Dam is a successful hedge fund manager and the creator of the BBC's successful financial reality series Million Dollar Traders.

How to Make Money Trading Lex Van Dam 9781908449146 | £9.99 | July | PB Over 50 charts and graphs | 192 pages | 215 x 138 mm

• Straight talking advice from the presenter and creator of BBC2’s Million Dollar Traders • Offers clear-cut tips for beginners from experienced stock market traders • Successful follow-on to How to Make Money from Property

Lex now turns his expertise to How to Make Money Trading which covers all the essential information you need to understand the stock market and trading.

From managing a portfolio and doing your homework to controlling your emotions, this book gives you straight talking, expert advice on everything you need to know to create your own ‘City-sized’ bonus.

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How to Make Money from Property 9781843405177 | £10.99 | PB

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People are more interested than ever before in understanding the inner workings of the City. In 2008, BBC2 presented Million Dollar Traders, which has been described as a high-finance version of The Apprentice. Filmed as the credit crises escalated, experienced hedge fund manager Lex Van Dam gave eight novices £500,000 of his own money to trade on the stock exchange.

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Can’t Be Arsed 9781906032371 | £9.99 | HB

Don’t Even Think About It! 9781906032746 | £9.99 | HB

How Not To Talk Like An Arse 9781907554209 | £9.99 | HB

The Grumpy Gardener’s Handbook 9781907554247 | £9.99 | HB

The Grumpy Driver’s Handbook

One Grump or Two

When I Were a Lad...

When I Were A Lass

9781906032531 | £9.99 | HB

9781907554001 | £9.99 | HB

9781907554582 | £9.99 | HB

When I Were A Meerkat

Those Were the Days: Football

Those Were the Days: Golf

Campbell’s Weather Compendium

9781907554544 | £9.99 | HB

9781907554445 | £9.99 | HB

9781907554438 | £9.99 | HB

9781906032982 | £9.99 | HB

Kent’s Strangest Tales

The Olympics’ Strangest Moments

Hidden Mathematics of Sport

9781907554513 | £9.99 | HB

9781907554339 | £9.99 | PB

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9781907554223 | £9.99 | HB

9781906032791 | £9.99 | HB

The Joy of Sheds

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The Coast Road

The Water Road

9781907554490 | £9.99 | HB

9781905798094 | £9.99 | PB

9781861056559 | £9.99 | PB

My Name Is Moose

Now Open Sundays!

The Boy in the Song

The Girl in the Song

9781843406266 | £9.99 | HB

9781906032838 | £7.99 | HB

9781907554520 | £9.99 |HB

9781907554032 | £9.99 | HB

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England My England

The Very Embarrassing Book of Dad Jokes 9781907554537 | £9.99 | HB

When In Rome

Wrotten English

Ode to Love

9781907554551 | £9.99 |HB

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9781907554100 | £9.99 | HB

9781907554384 | £9.99 | HB

Humphrey Lyttleton It Just Occurred to Me

The Football Hall of Fame

Feet of the Chameleon

The Backpacker’s Bible New Edition

9781905798179 | £7.99 | PB

9781906032463 | £17.99 | HB

9781906032852 | £7.99 | PB

9781907554216 | £9.99 | PB

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Lost in Translation