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£25.00 hardback (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781399802574 | ISBN 10: 1399802577
THE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLING HILARIOUS NEW BOOK FROM THE NATION’S FAVOURITE COMEDIAN, BILLY CONNOLLY
Being a Rambling Man was what I always wanted to be, to live the way I damn well pleased. I’ve met the weirdest and most wonderful people who ... more
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£20.00 hardback (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781526669902 | ISBN 10: 1526669900
By Mat Baynton, Simon Farnaby, Martha Howe-Douglas, Jim Howick, Laurence Rickard, and Ben Willbond.
The comic companion to the BBC sitcom GHOSTS, perfect for all the family.
Everybody leaves a trace. The ghosts of Button House may h ... more
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£9.99 hardback (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781739144203 | ISBN 10: 1739144201
We see the sights follows Mummy, Susan and John on a jolly sightseeing trip of post covid London. As our family re-emerge from two years of lockdown into the heart of their city, things have subtly changed. St Paul's cathedral is now St Primark ... more
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£16.99 hardback (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781838957698 | ISBN 10: 1838957693
‘A unique, funny picture of Britain... A love letter to bookshops and the vagaries of public transport.’ Richard Osman
Why play to 12,000 people when you can play to 12? In Autumn 2021, Robin Ince’s stadium tour with Professor Brian Co ... more
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£16.99 hardback (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781838858216 | ISBN 10: 1838858210
A hilarious new comics collection from the New York Times bestselling cartoonist and illustrator – the perfect gift for all book lovers.
Confront the spectre of failure, the wraith of social media, and other supernatural enemies of the aut ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2022) - ISBN 13: 9780571359974 | ISBN 10: 0571359973
The much-loved authors of What Would Boudicca Do? channel the feminist power of mythical goddesses in this witty, inspirational gift.
‘What guts. What attitude! These are the immortals I wish I’d learned about at school.’
OLIVIA COLMA ... more
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£6.99 hardback (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781800811928 | ISBN 10: 1800811926
Reflections on Covid and confinement from the unparalleled pen of Alan Bennett.
4 March. HMQ pictured in the paper at an investiture wearing gloves, presumably as a precaution against Coronavirus. But not just gloves; these are almost gauntl ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2022) - ISBN 13: 9780571365906 | ISBN 10: 0571365906
This memoir, told in gloriously comic vignettes, is an utterly joyful reflection on living – and sometimes thriving (sometimes not) – with anxiety.
One of Stylist‘s Best Memoirs for Summer 2021
Multi-award-winning television w ... more
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£6.99 paperback (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781788168182 | ISBN 10: 1788168186
Voted Britain's favourite poem, 'Warning', written in 1961, is known and loved the world over for its message of old age as a time for indulgence and fun.
In the poem's respectable middle-aged woman, as she imagines herself in old age as a chee ... more
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£9.99 hardback (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781452171593 | ISBN 10: 1452171599
How do you find a book when you can't recall the title... or the author? This homage to a common reader's dilemma is a gift the booklover in your life won't soon forget.
Readers know all too well the comedy and tragedy of forgetting the name of ... more
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£9.99 hardback (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781408715086 | ISBN 10: 1408715082
Tell, Mighty Wit, how the highest in forethought and,
That tremendous plus, The Science,
Saw off our panic and Globed vexation
Until a drape of calmness furled around the earth
And beckoned a new and greater normal into each life
For which we g ... more
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£12.99 hardback (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781472976130 | ISBN 10: 1472976134
More joyful cycling cartoons from the renowned Cycling Cartoonist.
Inside you'll find over 100 full-page cartoons that cast an affectionate eye over the delights and challenges of cycling: from everyday commuting to cycling adventures, and e ... more
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£10.99 paperback (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781529300369 | ISBN 10: 1529300363
'Well good evening, my name is Jeremy Hardy and I'm a comedian who likes to make wry witty satirical observations about the society we live in - but I prefer to keep them to myself, thank you very much.'
Edited by his wife, Katie Barlow and his ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2020) - ISBN 13: 9780008401108 | ISBN 10: 0008401101
The Princess and the Prick is a feminist humour and gift book for adults.
May I kiss you, he said. She didn't answer.
She was asleep. So he kissed her anyway.
Revisit childhood classics, but not as you remember them.
Fam ... more
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£8.99 hardback (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781788165136 | ISBN 10: 1788165136
In this bestselling classic, James Finn Garner has rewritten classic stories for more enlightened times; from Snow White's relationship with seven vertically challenged men, Little Red Riding Hood, her grandma and the cross-dressing wolf who set up a ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2020) - ISBN 13: 9780571336005 | ISBN 10: 0571336000
Award-winning comedian Sara Pascoe turns her attention to the things that really matter to humans – sex, power and money.
Following her hit book Animal, Sara Pascoe decides to confront her fear of the male libido, and turns her attention to th ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2020) - ISBN 13: 9780571339143 | ISBN 10: 057133914x
At last, the definitive book about perhaps the best cabin crew dramedy ever filmed: View From the Top starring Gwyneth Paltrow.
In Ayoade on Top, Richard Ayoade, perhaps one of the most ‘insubstantial’ people of our age, takes us on a journe ... more
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£8.99 hardback (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781529412086 | ISBN 10: 1529412080
'Ah! This is the dream!' says Julian one morning. 'With good old British common sense and community spirit like this, there's no reason that we couldn't exist on the island like this for the rest of our days!'
What could possibly go wrong...?
& ... more
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£15.00 paperback (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781838939021 | ISBN 10: 1838939024
The Sunday Times Humour Book of the Year.
80 of the funniest stories ever written, selected and introduced by Paul Merton. From Anton Chekhov to Ali Smith, from P.G. Wodehouse to Nora Ephron, the greatest writers are those who know how to l ... more
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£9.99 hardback (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781529348217 | ISBN 10: 1529348218
A hilarious diary of married life with the sensible, no-nonsense man of all our dreams: Jurgen Klopp, from critically-acclaimed comedian and Twitter sensation Laura Lexx.
Inspired by the viral tweet: 'If I ever met Jurgen Klopp I'd say "omg ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2020) - ISBN 13: 9780571359264 | ISBN 10: 0571359264
Staring down the barrel of her fortieth year, Samantha Irby is confronting the ways her life has changed since the days she could work a full 11 hour shift on 4 hours of sleep, change her shoes and put mascara on in the back of a moving cab and go fr ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781760529451 | ISBN 10: 1760529451
Hilarious, unpredictable and, at times, touching, this compilation is the perfect gift for fans of Weird Things Customers Say in Bookshops and The Diary of a Bookseller.
As any retail or service worker will tell you, customers can be irrational, d ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781473687738 | ISBN 10: 147368773x
HOLD MY CHIPS, THE WOMEN ARE REVOLTING! A darkly funny guide to life as a woman from Britain's favourite comedian.
Sometimes it's hard to be a woman and sometimes it's time to be a hard woman... This is a book for all those times.
Once upon ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781786492616 | ISBN 10: 178649261x
Evening Standard’s the Best Comedy Books of the Year, 2018
Skinny’s Book of the Year, 2018
What better way to understand ourselves than through the eyes of comedians – those who professionally examine our quirks on stage daily? In this ... more
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£12.99 hardback (2019) - ISBN 13: 9780062881229 | ISBN 10: 0062881221
If there’s one thing we can agree on in a post-Trump America, it’s that sexism exists. While there are myriad books on female friendship in the marketplace, Toxic Femininity is the first book on the special relationship between female coworkers a ... more
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£9.99 hardback (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781925811186 | ISBN 10: 1925811182
This zoological odyssey documents the cutest, cuddliest and silliest animals of all time, to brighten up the days of us mere humans across the world.
As its name subtly suggests, this book features 90 pictures of excessively cute animals. Th ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781773212579 | ISBN 10: 1773212575
Like many others on the autism spectrum, 20-something stand-up comic Michael McCreary has been told by more than a few well-meaning folks that he doesn't "look" autistic. But, as he's quick to point out in this memoir, autism "looks" different for ju ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781784705695 | ISBN 10: 1784705691
"A beautiful and clever book about being human."(Russell Brand)
COMEDY. TRAGEDY. THERAPY.
Simon Amstell did his first stand-up gig at the age of thirteen. His parents had just divorced and puberty was confusing. Trying to be funny solved ... more
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£16.99 hardback (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781783526024 | ISBN 10: 1783526025
When writer, comedian and Red Dwarf actor Robert Llewellyn's son scrawled a picture of him at Christmas and titled it 'Some Old Bloke', Robert was cast deep into thought about life and what it means to be a bloke and an old one at that.
In t ... more
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£7.99 hardback (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781786852557 | ISBN 10: 1786852551
When you have endless exams to prepare for, the assignment you wrote has genuinely been eaten by the dog and you’re forced to wear the lost-property PE kit because yours is in the wash, life can become a little overwhelming. For all the times you ... more
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£19.99 hardback (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781101986677 | ISBN 10: 1101986670
At last, the full story behind Megan Mullally and Nick Offerman's epic romance, including stories, portraits, and the occasional puzzle, all telling the smoldering tale that has fascinated Hollywood for almost two decades. Featuring anecdotes, ... more
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£12.99 paperback (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781847948342 | ISBN 10: 1847948340
A blockbuster collection of the year’s funniest political cartoons, featuring the work of Mac, Steve Bell, Peter Brookes and many more...
2018 was the year that Brexit got serious, royals got married, football got (briefly) feverish, and Trump ... more
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£6.99 paperback (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781786857255 | ISBN 10: 1786857251
What was Sir Isaac Newton famous for?
He invented gravity.
Another year has passed, which means more exams have been sat and more silly answers have been given by the children of our future. To make sure these hilarious blunders won’t be ... more
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£12.99 card deck (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781786891525 | ISBN 10: 1786891522
A hilarious collection of fifty postcards celebrating multi-award-winning cartoonist Tom Gauld’s iconic Guardian comics – the perfect gift for book lovers everywhere.
Tom Gauld has created countless iconic strips for the Guardian over th ... more
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£12.99 hardback (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781785943362 | ISBN 10: 1785943367
Ever wanted to pick the lock of a celebrity’s teenage diary?
My Teenage Diary is a Radio 4 comedy show hosted by Rufus Hound featuring celebrities reading and discussing extracts from their teenage diaries. Collected together for the first ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2018) - ISBN 13: 9780571316564 | ISBN 10: 0571316565
Gordy LaSure’s passionate about film. He eats film, he drinks film, and sometimes he’ll even watch a film. But most of all he loves talking to people about film: whether a comely student with low confidence and a father complex, a Studio ‘devel ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781786890115 | ISBN 10: 1786890119
“It sounded to me that to be a gentleman, you needed both manners and bravery. And that thought was horribly fascinating. Because I thought only wimps needed manners. And only tough guys were brave”
Following Peep Show, and alongside Back, t ... more
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£9.99 hardback (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781925418651 | ISBN 10: 1925418650
Carrot-top. Ranga. Ronald. Rusty. Fire-crotch. Red.
Given redheads only make up two per cent of the global population, why has society dedicated itself to inventing ever-more insulting nicknames for them?
It’s obvious: jealousy.
... more
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£9.99 hardback (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781472127297 | ISBN 10: 1472127293
From the creators of the bestselling parodies We're Going on a Bar Hunt, The Very Hungover Caterpillar and The Teenager Who Came to Tea.
Shabby - because there is no word for Hygge in English.
We all know Shabby when we see it. It's ... more
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£7.99 hardback (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781786483867 | ISBN 10: 1786483866
The Five go north to see their grandmother - Granny Barnard - who they haven't caught up with for many years, since she remarried. She is alone over the Easter weekend and so the Five decide to look after and reconnect.
They're shocked to find ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2017) - ISBN 13: 9780571329038 | ISBN 10: 0571329039
Over the last five years, often when David Mitchell has been on holiday, the comedian Stewart Lee has been attempting to understand modern Britain, and his own place in it, in a series of irregular newspaper columns. Will Scotland become the Promised ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781786820297 | ISBN 10: 1786820293
The perfect humorous gift for students, actors and anyone with an interest in theatre.
In the most important theatrical book of this or any other decade, twitter sensation @tips4actors gives you all the advice you need to take your acting to the ... more
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£6.99 hardback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9780718184308 | ISBN 10: 0718184300
A HILARIOUS, BRAND NEW BOOK IN THE PHENOMENAL LADYBIRDS FOR GROWN UPS SERIES, FOR AUTUMN 2016
How it Works: The Grandparent - a nugget of wisdom from bestselling authors Jason Hazeley and Joel Morris.
This delightful book is the lat ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781444792737 | ISBN 10: 1444792733
The autobiography of a comic genius and godfather of surreal comedy.
Completed before he died, thirty years ago, this is the newly discovered autobiography of one of the most influential comedians of recent times, Marty Feldman.
Mar ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9780241978566 | ISBN 10: 0241978564
The Bible According to Spike Milligan is an irreverent but very funny spoof of The Old Testament in which, in his own inimitable fashion, Spike Milligan gives his version of the best known biblical stories.
In the Bible, according to Spike Milli ... more
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£14.99 hardback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9780857844057 | ISBN 10: 0857844059
Encyclopaedias and dictionaries are often boring, of no help when it comes to secretly filling train carriages with subversive balloons and they rarely manage to offend everyone. Lexicographers assume that language is a big machine that you need an i ... more
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£7.99 hardback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781786482242 | ISBN 10: 178648224x
Enid Blyton's books are beloved the world over and The Famous Five have been the perennial favourite of her fans. Now, in this new series of Enid Blyton for Grown-Ups, George, Dick, Anne, Julian and Timmy confront a new challenge: what exactly is thi ... more
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£9.95 hardback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781780677446 | ISBN 10: 1780677448
Andy Warhol – Top of the Pops, devout Catholic, silver-wig wearer and now the star of Where’s Warhol?
Spot Warhol in the corridors of the Bauhaus or the Sistine Chapel as he and his famous friends pop up in 12 spectacles of art hist ... more
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£7.99 paperback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781405918558 | ISBN 10: 1405918551
Spectacles is the hilarious, creative and incredibly moving memoir from much loved comedian, writer and presenter Sue Perkins.
When I began writing this book, I went home to see if my mum had kept some of my stuff. What I found was that she had ... more
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£9.99 hardback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9780857524300 | ISBN 10: 0857524305
Ill be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when theres evidence of any thinking going on inside it.
The most quotable writer of our time, Terry Pratchetts unique brand of wit made him both a bestseller and an en ... more
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£5.99 paperback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781845029920 | ISBN 10: 1845029925
When parents get hold of a mobile phone for the first time, the results can be hilarious. Now, in WTF: Why Parents Should Never Text, the extent of their unbelievable lack of street cred is fully exposed. This laugh-out-loud collection will mak ... more
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£6.99 hardback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780718183523 | ISBN 10: 0718183525
This delightful book is the latest in the series of Ladybird books which have been specially planned to help grown-ups with the world about them.
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£8.99 paperback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781472121783 | ISBN 10: 1472121783
From the authors of We're Going on a Bar Hunt, the paper smartphone full of cool stuff to get you really connected with the people in your life...
Bored of seeing everyone you know glued to their phones all the time?
Feeling the need to get real ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780753555354 | ISBN 10: 0753555352
What do you do when you're labelled abnormal in a world obsessed with normality? In a world where wrinkles are practically illegal, going bald is cause for mental breakdown, and women over size ten are encouraged to shoot themselves, what the **** do ... more
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£11.99 hardback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781576877555 | ISBN 10: 1576877558
Subversive Cross Stitch: 50 F*cking Clever Designs For Your Sassy Side invites stitchers of all levels to fully express their bad-ass crafty selves, whether they need to release their inner curmudgeon or let fly with a witty insult.
With al ... more
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£7.99 paperback (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781782432548 | ISBN 10: 178243254x
Sit back, relax and allow Hans Christian Asbosen to tell you fantastical stories of far-away lands. Once upon a time there lived ...
Hansel and Britney and their trail of Wotsits, Jack and the Weedstalk, Snow White and the Seven Dads and Blin ... more
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£8.99 hardback (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781472111029 | ISBN 10: 1472111028
A hilarious and salutary rummage through the perils of the publisher's slushpile. Most publishers keep a 'slushpile' - the stack of unsolicited manuscripts which contains a large percentage of preposterous or frightening book proposals, which might ... more
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£10.99 paperback (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781783350285 | ISBN 10: 1783350288
Read about how John Major learned the English language from his time in Nigeria. There is Tony Blair, with his verb-free sentences which imply everything and promise nothing. Gordon Brown, the grumpiest prime minister of recent years, both Stalin and ... more
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£12.00 paperback (2013) - ISBN 13: 9781852249786 | ISBN 10: 1852249781
Poet, comic, singer, songwriter and glasses-wearer, John Hegley has captivated and devastated audiences all over the country, in theatres and festivals, at gigs at the Edinburgh Festival, and with numerous appearances on radio and television. T ... more
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£12.99 paperback (2013) - ISBN 13: 9781848093126 | ISBN 10: 1848093128
My wife is a magician, yesterday she turned our car into a tree.
A big white horse walks into a pub. The barman says, 'we have a drink named after you.' The horse says, 'what? Eric?'
I said, 'waiter, what's that in my soup?' he said ... more
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£7.99 paperback (2012) - ISBN 13: 9780718197612 | ISBN 10: 0718197615
Nicholas Lezard loved London. Then the London 2012 Olympics came along ...
Suddenly his beloved city was invaded by ber-people in branded sportswear who had contorted their bodies into odd shapes in order to run a bit faster, or throw thing ... more
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£10.99 paperback (2012) - ISBN 13: 9781444739763 | ISBN 10: 144473976x
IN 2012, THE DIAMOND JUBILEE YEAR, HER MAJESTY'S DIARIES ARE OPENED AT LAST...
'Had a quick run-through of the opening ceremony. One wanted to call it "The Empire Strikes Back" but it was generally felt that might intimidate the smaller nations.' ... more
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£10.99 paperback (2012) - ISBN 13: 9780571277964 | ISBN 10: 0571277969
The co-writer of Yes, Minister and Hollywood comedy director presents an insider's look at how comedy works told through hilarious anecdotes.
Jonathan Lynn's credits include creating and co-writing the long-running comedy series Yes, Mi ... more
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£9.99 hardback (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781905847563 | ISBN 10: 1905847564
Everyone knows we're a nation obsessed with runners-up and near-missers, that we find failure heroic and success boring, if not downright rude.
In this hilarious, fact-packed and up-to-date compendium, vintage losers such as Ethelred 'the ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781848542075 | ISBN 10: 1848542070
We say a lot about ourselves by what we don't say. Words and phrases like 'collateral damage', 'wardrobe malfunction', 'vertically challenged', and old favourites like 'unmentionables' (trousers, apparently) or 'lady of the night' - all are ways of n ... more
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£7.99 paperback (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780141046662 | ISBN 10: 014104666x
Nostalgia, identity, eccentricity, gin drinking and occasional violence... these are just some of the themes that stand-up comedian Dara O Briain explores in Tickling the English.
O Briain moved to England many years ago, but when he ... more
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£7.99 paperback (2010) - ISBN 13: 9781843174660 | ISBN 10: 1843174669
A compilation of 100 per cent genuine ridiculous answers from quiz-show contestants that is guaranteed to make you laugh.
Beg, Borrow or Steal (BBC2)
Jamie Theakston: Where do you think Cambridge University is?
Contestant: Geography isn' ... more
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£7.99 paperback (2009) - ISBN 13: 9780141047713 | ISBN 10: 0141047712
Perhaps you once asked yourself, What exactly is Hamlet trying to tell me? Why must he mince his words, muse in lyricism and, in short, whack about the shrub? No doubt such troubling questions would have been swiftly resolved were the Prince of Den ... more
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£5.99 paperback (2009) - ISBN 13: 9781840247121 | ISBN 10: 1840247126
Children are at their funniest when they are trying to be serious, and their earnest attempts at mastering the English language are a veritable goldmine of unintentional humor, from the charming to the ludicrous, and from the profound to the downrigh ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2009) - ISBN 13: 9780091899370 | ISBN 10: 0091899370
The plan was simple. Go to America. Buy a second-hand car. Drive coast-to-coast without giving any money to The Man. What could possibly go wrong?
Dismayed by the relentless onslaught of faceless American chains muscling in where local busin ... more
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£10.99 hardback (2008) - ISBN 13: 9780752226644 | ISBN 10: 0752226649
Theyre Not Pets, Susan, says a stern father who has just shot a bumblebee, its wings sparkling in the evening sunlight; a lone office worker, less than an inch high, looks out over the river in his lunch break, Dreaming of Packing it all In; and ... more
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£8.99 hardback (2008) - ISBN 13: 9781847170675 | ISBN 10: 1847170676
'I can resist everything except temptation.'
Oscar Wilde is probably the most quoted and quotable man in history. His plays, his novels and his lacerating with had London at his feet. He boasted that he could talk spontaneously on any subject ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2007) - ISBN 13: 9780141022024 | ISBN 10: 0141022027
Have you ever wondered why you bother to go to work? Why so much of consumer culture is crap? Whether there might be a better, freer, happier way to live our lives? If so, this book is for you. Following up his cult bestseller How To Be Idle, T ... more
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£7.99 paperback (2006) - ISBN 13: 9780563493884 | ISBN 10: 0563493887
Ok, enough is enough. Those Grumpy Old Men have had their turn at complaining and now the Grumpy Old Women are taking over. It's high time the world knew what struggles and trials they have to go through. Not only do they multi-task in double fi ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2006) - ISBN 13: 9780330448321 | ISBN 10: 0330448323
Jon Ronson's subjects have included people who believe that goats can be killed by the power of a really hard stare, and men who belive that the world is ruled by twelve-foot lizard men. In Out of the Ordinary, a collection of his journalism from the ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2005) - ISBN 13: 9780141015064 | ISBN 10: 0141015063
As Oscar Wilde said, doing nothing is hard work. The Protestant work ethic has most of us in its thrall, and the idlers of this world have the odds stacked against them. But here, at last, is a book that can help.
From Tom Hodgkinson, edito ... more
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£6.99 paperback (2004) - ISBN 13: 9780091901752 | ISBN 10: 0091901758
'Now, at last, the secret to a happier world! You have the power to make it a nicer place! All over the planet, thousands of people just like you are performing Random Acts of Kindness for complete strangers: Buy an old lady a hat! Give a policeman ... more
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£6.99 paperback (2003) - ISBN 13: 9780340862360 | ISBN 10: 034086236x
On days out to the beach, always be the first in the family to get out of the car, onto the beach and into the sea. Always be the last in the family to get out of the sea, onto the beach and into the car. Remember to shake excess sea wate ... more
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