An essential guide to modern manners, this enlightening and useful book strikes a balance between the stuffy, rigid rules of the 1950s and today's anything-goes school of thought.It is packed with good-humoured advice for the way we live today, but also discusses which formal points of etiquette are still relevant in the 21st century.

'Steve Sheppard is a gifted comic writer with a knack for clever plotting and thrills.' Greg Mosse, writer'A fun, page-turning thriller that kept me enthralled and chuckling. There's a wonderful sort of sophisticated goofiness reminiscent of Nick and Nora Charles of The Thin Man. I couldn't put it down!' Steve Powell, author of Term Limits'Frenetic and huge fun.' Julie Anderson, author of the CWA-listed Cassand...

Boost Your Etiquette IQ depicts the ground rules to remain or even become the perfect host, the perfect hostess and the perfect guest. «Can we, without notifying the host, be accompanied by a new flame met on Internet? «; «How can one make all the guests finally leave?»; «Why bring a gift to the hostess?»; «What should one do with all these forks?»; «Can you drink the bottle you bring?»; «Are SMS allowed?». You hyperventilate at the arrival of guests? You do not know how t...

THE DARKLY HILARIOUS AND BRILLIANTLY WISE NOVEL FROM THE AUTHOR OF SAD JANET****All her life, Susan's loved ones have been hiding a terrible secret from her: If she thinks too hard, her head will explode.Until now, Susan has lived happily in a bubble of TV and takeaways, social media and small talk; anything to distract her from the spiralling thoughts that so often haunt the rest of us - ...

Sieben Exfreunde. Sieben vertane Chancen. Wer war der Richtige?Esther hat einen tollen Freundeskreis, einen interessanten Job, aber kurz vor ihrem dreißigsten Geburtstag gerät sie in eine tiefe Krise. Denn jedes Date ist ein Reinfall. Einzig ihre beiden Freundinnen wissen Abhilfe: Sich schon tagsüber mit reichlich Roséwein betrinken. Dabei stoßen sie auf eine alte Cosmow, Bibel aller Frauen, in der steht: Jede Frau führt im Leben sieben Arten von Beziehungen, und nu...