1950s piece, "Sleep for Sale", he prefigured the concept of the capsule hotel ("Over to you, capitalists. But remember, I thought of it first."). Several of his pieces touched on the invented philosophical movement of Resistentialism, a concept that probably owes some of its force to the contempt that Jennings—a devout Catholic—felt for the intellectual fashion he was parodying. Jennings was an admirer of James Thurber, who attended a dinner party at Jennings' house and subsequently wrote of the conversation in a 1955 New Yorker piece. Bibliography Oddly Enough collections Oddly Enough (Reinhardt and Evans, 1950) Even Oddlier (Reinhardt, 1952) Oddly Bodlikins (Reinhardt, 1953) Next to Oddliness (Reinhardt, 1955) Model Oddlies (Reinhardt, 1956) Gladly Oddly (Reinhardt, 1958) Idly Oddly (Reinhardt, 1959) I said Oddly, Diddle I? (Reinhardt, 1961) Oodles of Oddlies (Reinhardt, 1963) Oddly Ad Lib (Reinhardt, 1965) I Was Joking, Of Course (Reinhardt, 1968) It's an Odd Thing, But... ( Reinhardt, 1971) General collections The Jenguin Pennings (Penguin, 1963) A Precsription for Foreing Travel (sic) (Guinness, 1966) I Must Have Imagined It (M Joseph, 1977) Pun Fun (Hamlyn, 1980) Golden Oddlies (Methuen, 1983) The Paul Jennings Reader (Bloomsbury, 1990) (posthumous) Books on British life The Living Village (Hodder and Stoughton, 1968) Just a Few Lines: Guinness Trains of Thought (London: Guinness Superlatives, 1969; ). About the Colne Valley, Scarborough–Whitby, Oxford–Fairford, and Neath–Brecon rail lines. With photographs by Graham Finlayson. Britain as she is Visit (M. Joseph, 1976) Companion to Britain (Cassell, 1981) East Anglia (Gordon Fraser, 1986) Children's books The Hopping Basket (MacDonald & Co, 1965) The Great Jelly of London (Faber and Faber, 1967) The Train to Yesterday (Chambers, 1974) Other Dunlopera: The Works and Workings of the Dunlop Rubber Company. Dunlop Rubber Co, 1961. About Dunlop; illustrated by Edward Bawden; not commercially issued. . And Now for Something Exactly the Same (Gollancz, 1977). A novel. As editor The English Difference (Aurelia Enterprises, 1974) (co-edited with John Gorham) The Book of Nonsense (Macdonald, 1977) A Feast of Days (Macdonald, 1982) My Favourite Railway Stories (Lutterworth Press, 1982) Personal life Jennings married Celia Blom, daughter of music critic and lexicographer Eric Blom, in 1951. The couple lived in East Bergholt, Suffolk, England, and had six children. A keen chorister, Jennings sang with the Oriana Madrigal Society and the London Philharmonia Chorus. In later years he was an active member of the church choir at St Thomas of Canterbury church