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Books are listed in order of year of publication - newest titles are at the top. There are 53 books in this booklist

  • Cover image of book Rambling Man: My Life on the Road by Billy Connolly
    Rambling Man: My Life on the Road - by Billy Connolly

    £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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  • Cover image of book GHOSTS: The Button House Archives (The Official Companion to the Hit TV Series) by Various authors
    GHOSTS: The Button House Archives (The Official Companion to the Hit TV Series) - by Various authors

    £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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  • Cover image of book We See the Sights by Miriam Elia
    We See the Sights - by Miriam Elia

    £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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  • Cover image of book Bibliomaniac: An Obsessive
    Bibliomaniac: An Obsessive's Tour of the Bookshops of Britain - by Robin Ince

    £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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  • Cover image of book You Goddess! Life Lessons from Awesome Immortals by Elizabeth Foley and Beth Coates
    You Goddess! Life Lessons from Awesome Immortals - by Elizabeth Foley and Beth Coates

    £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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  • Cover image of book House Arrest: Pandemic Diaries by Alan Bennett
    House Arrest: Pandemic Diaries - by Alan Bennett

    £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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  • Cover image of book My Mess Is a Bit of a Life: Adventures in Anxiety by Georgia Pritchett
    My Mess Is a Bit of a Life: Adventures in Anxiety - by Georgia Pritchett

    £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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  • Cover image of book Warning: When I Am an Old Woman, I Shall Wear Purple by Jenny Joseph, illustrated by Lydia Coventry
    Warning: When I Am an Old Woman, I Shall Wear Purple - by Jenny Joseph, illustrated by Lydia Coventry

    £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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  • Cover image of book Pandemonium: Some Verses on the Current Predicament by Armando Iannucci
    Pandemonium: Some Verses on the Current Predicament - by Armando Iannucci

    £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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  • Cover image of book From A to B: A Cartoon Guide to Getting Around by Bike by Dave Walker
    From A to B: A Cartoon Guide to Getting Around by Bike - by Dave Walker

    £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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  • Cover image of book Jeremy Hardy Speaks Volumes: Words, Wit, Wisdom, One-Liners and Rants by Jeremy Hardy
    Jeremy Hardy Speaks Volumes: Words, Wit, Wisdom, One-Liners and Rants - by Jeremy Hardy

    £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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  • Cover image of book The Princess and the Prick: Fairytales for Feminists by Walburga Appleseed
    The Princess and the Prick: Fairytales for Feminists - by Walburga Appleseed

    £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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  • Cover image of book Politically Correct Bedtime Stories by James Finn Garner
    Politically Correct Bedtime Stories - by James Finn Garner

    £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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  • Cover image of book Ayoade On Top by Richard Ayoade
    Ayoade On Top - by Richard Ayoade

    £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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  • Cover image of book Five Go Absolutely Nowhere by Bruno Vincent
    Five Go Absolutely Nowhere - by Bruno Vincent

    £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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  • Cover image of book Funny Ha, Ha: 80 of the Funniest Stories Ever Written by Paul Merton (Editor)
    Funny Ha, Ha: 80 of the Funniest Stories Ever Written - by Paul Merton (Editor)

    £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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  • Cover image of book Klopp Actually: (Imaginary) Life with Football
    Klopp Actually: (Imaginary) Life with Football's Most Sensible Heartthrob - by Laura Lexx

    £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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  • Cover image of book Wow, No Thank You. by Samantha Irby
    Wow, No Thank You. - by Samantha Irby

    £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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  • Cover image of book I Can
    I Can't Remember the Title But the Cover is Blue - by Elias Greig, illustrated by Phillip Marsden

    £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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  • Cover image of book Toxic Femininity in the Workplace: Office Gender Politics Are a Battlefield by Ginny Hogan
    Toxic Femininity in the Workplace: Office Gender Politics Are a Battlefield - by Ginny Hogan

    £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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  • Cover image of book This Book Is Literally Just Pictures of Cute Animals That Will Make You Feel Better by Smith Street Books
    This Book Is Literally Just Pictures of Cute Animals That Will Make You Feel Better - by Smith Street Books

    £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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  • Cover image of book Funny, You Don
    Funny, You Don't Look Autistic: A Comedian's Guide to Life on the Spectrum - by Michael McCreary

    £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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  • Cover image of book Help by Simon Amstell
    Help - by Simon Amstell

    £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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  • Cover image of book Some Old Bloke: Recollections, Obsessions and the Joys of Blokedom by Robert Llewellyn
    Some Old Bloke: Recollections, Obsessions and the Joys of Blokedom - by Robert Llewellyn

    £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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  • Cover image of book The Greatest Love Story Ever Told: An Oral History by Nick Offerman and Megan Mullally
    The Greatest Love Story Ever Told: An Oral History - by Nick Offerman and Megan Mullally

    £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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  • Cover image of book F in Exams: Back Again with More of the Funniest Exam Paper Blunders by Richard Benson
    F in Exams: Back Again with More of the Funniest Exam Paper Blunders - by Richard Benson

    £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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  • Cover image of book Britain
    Britain's Best Political Cartoons 2018 - by Tim Benson

    £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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  • Cover image of book The Snooty Bookshop: Fifty Literary Postcards by Tom Gauld
    The Snooty Bookshop: Fifty Literary Postcards - by Tom Gauld

    £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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  • Cover image of book My Teenage Diary: Adolescent Musings from the Hit BBC Radio 4 Series by Harriet Jaine
    My Teenage Diary: Adolescent Musings from the Hit BBC Radio 4 Series - by Harriet Jaine

    £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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  • Cover image of book The Grip of Film by Richard Ayoade
    The Grip of Film - by Richard Ayoade

    £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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  • Cover image of book How Not To Be a Boy by Robert Webb
    How Not To Be a Boy - by Robert Webb

    £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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  • Cover image of book Ginger Pride: A Red-Headed History of the World by Tobias Anthony
    Ginger Pride: A Red-Headed History of the World - by Tobias Anthony

    £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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  • Cover image of book Five Get Gran Online by Bruno Vincent
    Five Get Gran Online - by Bruno Vincent

    £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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  • Cover image of book Content Provider: Selected Short Prose Pieces, 2011-2016 by Stewart Lee
    Content Provider: Selected Short Prose Pieces, 2011-2016 - by Stewart Lee

    £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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  • Cover image of book How it Works: The Grandparent by Jason Hazeley and Joel Morris
    How it Works: The Grandparent - by Jason Hazeley and Joel Morris

    £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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  • Cover image of book Five Go on a Strategy Away Day by Bruno Vincent
    Five Go on a Strategy Away Day - by Bruno Vincent

    £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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  • Cover image of book The Apocalypedia: A Utopian Guide to What Is and What Isn
    The Apocalypedia: A Utopian Guide to What Is and What Isn't - by Darren Allen

    £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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  • Cover image of book eYE Marty: The Newly Discovered Autobiography of a Comic Genius by Marty Feldman
    eYE Marty: The Newly Discovered Autobiography of a Comic Genius - by Marty Feldman

    £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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  • Cover image of book WTF: Why Parents Should Never Text by Anon
    WTF: Why Parents Should Never Text - by Anon

    £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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  • Cover image of book The Ladybird Book of Mindfulness by Jason Hazeley and Joel Morris
    The Ladybird Book of Mindfulness - by Jason Hazeley and Joel Morris

    £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.   The large clear script, the careful choice of words, the frequent repetition and the thoughtful ... more

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  • Cover image of book What the **** is Normal?! by Francesca Martinez
    What the **** is Normal?! - by Francesca Martinez

    £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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  • Cover image of book Subversive Cross Stitch: 50 F*cking Clever Designs For Your Sassy Side by Julie Jackson
    Subversive Cross Stitch: 50 F*cking Clever Designs For Your Sassy Side - by Julie Jackson

    £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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  • Cover image of book Tommy Cooper All in One Joke Book by Tommy Cooper, compiled by John Fisher
    Tommy Cooper All in One Joke Book - by Tommy Cooper, compiled by John Fisher

    £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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  • Cover image of book The Nolympics: One Man
    The Nolympics: One Man's Struggle Against Sporting Hysteria - by Nicholas Lezard

    £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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  • Cover image of book Great British Losers: Brazen Bunglers and Heroic Failures by Gordon Kerr
    Great British Losers: Brazen Bunglers and Heroic Failures - by Gordon Kerr

    £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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  • Cover image of book Blackboard Blunders: Spelling Slip-ups and Homework Howlers by Richard Benson
    Blackboard Blunders: Spelling Slip-ups and Homework Howlers - by Richard Benson

    £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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  • Cover image of book America Unchained by Dave Gormon
    America Unchained - by Dave Gormon

    £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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  • Cover image of book How to be Free by Tom Hodgkinson
    How to be Free - by Tom Hodgkinson

    £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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  • Cover image of book Grumpy Old Women: The Official Handbook by Judith Holder
    Grumpy Old Women: The Official Handbook - by Judith Holder

    £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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  • Cover image of book Out of the Ordinary: True Tales of Everyday Craziness by Jon Ronson
    Out of the Ordinary: True Tales of Everyday Craziness - by Jon Ronson

    £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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  • Cover image of book How to be Idle by Tom Hodgkinson
    How to be Idle - by Tom Hodgkinson

    £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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  • Cover image of book Random Acts of Kindness: 365 Ways to Make the World a Nicer Place by Danny Wallace and his Karma Army
    Random Acts of Kindness: 365 Ways to Make the World a Nicer Place - by Danny Wallace and his Karma Army

    £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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  • Cover image of book One Hundred Ways for a Dog to Train Its Human by Simon Whaley
    One Hundred Ways for a Dog to Train Its Human - by Simon Whaley

    £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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