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The Bluffer’s Guide to Men
Published by Oval Books, London
ISBN-10: 1903096952 (2006 edn)
ISBN-13: 978-BB03096956
ISBN-10: 1903096561 (2005 edn)
ISBN-13: 978-1903096567
First published in 1998
The Bluffer’s Guide series is well established. As the back covers put it: ‘Bluffer’s Guides - a series of snappy little books containing facts, jargon, and all you need to know for instant expertise.’ Other titles include the Bluffer’s Guide to Accountancy, to Computers, Golf, The Internet, Opera, Skiing, and so on. The success of the formula owes much to the fact that humour has a habit of exposing the truth.
Around Valentine’s Day one year, it occurred to me that the same approach could be fruitfully taken to Men and Women. After all, everyone has something to say on the subject, but you could get one ahead at any dinner table with a spattering of the sort of hypotheses produced by gender studies, surveys and statistics, half-digested medical information, home-spun wisdom and old saws. The process taught me a lot, which, being a man, I have chosen largely to ignore.
‘Women will find Mason's book irresistible and captivating. Men will find it infuriatingly accurate.
Written with great wit and style, this is a book to read aloud to houseguests. It makes a perfect wedding gift, particularly if one of the partners is male.’ - Amazon review of the first edition, from a reader from Arcata, California
Publishing history
First published in 1998 by Ravette Publishing, Horsham,
ISBN 1 85304 954 9
Reprinted 1998
First published by Oval Books 1999
Reprinted 2000, 2003
German translation: Clever bluffen: Männer (translated by Oliver Koch), Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, Frankfurt am Main, ISBN 3 596 14472 8 (1999)
Dutch translation: Bluffen over Mannen (translated by Lara Visser and Wim de Jong), Uitgeverij Krikke, Leiden, ISBN 90 5641 217 5 (1998)
Also translated into Greek, Estonian, Russian, Hungarian, Czech, Japanese and Chinese.
The Bluffer’s Guide to Women
The companion volume, The Bluffer’s Guide to Women, is by Marina Muratore:
Published by Oval Books, London,
ISBN-10: 1903096944
ISBN-13: 978-1903096949
First published in 2006
The two books have been published together as a single volume:
The Bluffer’s Guide to Men and Women
Published by Oval Books, London,
ISBN-10: 1903096308 (2006 edn)
ISBN-13: 978-1903096307
First published in 2004
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