Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 828.9202
EAN: 9780007198139
Edition: New title
ISBN: 0007198132
Label: Fourth Estate Ltd
Manufacturer: Fourth Estate Ltd
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 144
Publication Date: April 01, 2005
Publisher: Fourth Estate Ltd
Studio: Fourth Estate Ltd

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Rating: - :)
Side-splittingly funny, I keep it on my desk and open the book at random every morning to start the day with a bit of hilarity.

My personal favourite: Kumquat Mae, the vegetarian restaurant!

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Rating: - A nation of paronomastic shopkeepers


The fun and froth of the British High Street is brilliantly captured in this lovely photobook of quirkily named shops. 'Wooden it be nice' furniture, 'Blazing saddles' cycles, 'Change of a dress' clothes, 'Pane in the glass' windows and 'Lettuce eat', sandwiches will give you an idea of how groaningly wonderful these shops are.

The book is basically one photo to a page, a straight-on shot of the shop centred on the page with a geographic caption. A simple clean layout ... Read More

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Rating: - HIGH STREET COMEDY
I take photos of shop fronts with wacky names and Blackpool has a lot of 'em.Amazingly not one is shown in this book yet we had until new owners destroyed the name a chip shop called GOOD FRY DAYS.The only way it can be seen now is on my FLICKR photostream.
You can actually think this sort of stuff up as you walk into the town to alleviate the boredom:an electrical supply shop could be the British OHM Stores! I thought this up as I read in this book that British Airways tried to sue a hairdressers ... Read More

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Rating: - Very, very funny. Top of the Shops
This book succeeds where other humour books fail. So many offerings in this category have an amusing title or premise but they fail to live up to the promises these make. On flicking through, you find they just offer one joke repated on every page.

'Shop Horror' differs and succeeds by offering so much more than a collection of the country's funniest shop names. On many pages there is an image of a shop with a genuinly inventive name. Sherlock Homes estate agents, Criminal Records record ... Read More

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Rating: - Groan, cringe and laugh out loud!
The quirky sense of humour that the British are famous for is captured perfectly in this book - I just love it!

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