Sports writer Ian Valentine and celebrated cartoonist Oliver Preston have teamed up to present an essential accompaniment to sport. Whether you’re an occasional spectator who’d like to know more; or a seasoned tragic who adores sport’s unique patter; then Raise Your Game will be a fun and illuminating read. Filled with useful explanations, fascinating lingo and Oliver’s priceless observations, this is the perfect gift for touchline mums, diehard fans and sports-mad teenagers alike.
Key Features
More than 30 sports explained, from rugby and cricket to sumo wrestling and snowboarding
Celebration of sport’s rich language – full of colourful slang to use and impress
Hilarious cartoons by Oliver Preston
Special sections for Summer and Winter Olympics
Written by well-known author Ian Valentine, whose previous books include Out for a Duck
Perfect gift for all sports fans
“RICH PICKINGS” is a new anthology of Oliver Preston’s latest cartoons from The Field Magazine and elsewhere, and features his witty cartoons on dogs and drink, grandparents, children, gardening and country sports, and town and country life. Hardback with 96 pages of full colour cartoons. A must for those who love his keen eye for social observation, wonderful drawings and witty humour, and a superb present for birthdays and house gifts. Available for £20.00 + p&p. “Oliver’s cartoons bring a smile to my face no matter how often I look at them. The themes are as achingly funny as the drawings are exquisite.” Jilly Cooper. THE PERFECT PRESENT…
“How to be Asked again” A step-by-step guide to modern shooting etiquette stuffed full of amusing quotes and anecdotes. How to be Asked Again instructs the Gun on how to be the perfect guest out shooting. Inspired by the fact that so many more people are taking up shooting as adults, it encapsulates everything you need to know but no one will ever tell you out shooting as ‘you are just expected to know’. The books covers in a logical way what happens: From the moment you receive the shooting invitation, to arriving at the shoot, shooting safely and courteously, what never to say and how to tip the keeper. Much of this information comes from beaters, keepers, flankers, pickers up, shoot organisers, shoot owners and grouse moor owning earls and dukes. Hilarious cartoons by Oliver Preston, cartoonist for The Field Magazine, makes this a very entertaining book on shooting, the perfect gift for any shooting man or woman, either novice shot or experienced Gun. Hardback, 224pp, 246mm x 189mm. ISBN 9781846890574 Price £20.00 +p&p
Hardback. (Beverston Press, 2005). Ten years of Oliver Preston’s cartoons from The Field Magazine and elsewhere, featuring 96 pages of colour and black and white cartoons. From forays into field sports to a taste for the macabre, with a lavish helping of languid pretty girls and doting dogs, the book is a delightful cocktail of wit and graceful cartoons. The perfect present for men and women.
A new compendium of Oliver Preston’s hilarious cartoons from The Field Magazine and elsewhere, and features his wry observations on dogs and drink, grandparents, children, gardening and country sports, and town and country life.
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