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Books are listed in order of year of publication - newest titles are at the top. There are 27 books in this booklist

  • Cover image of book Terrible Maps: Hilarious Maps for a Ridiculous World by Michael Howe
    Terrible Maps: Hilarious Maps for a Ridiculous World - by Michael Howe

    £14.99   paperback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9780008641597 | ISBN 10: 0008641595

    The joys of the world, one terrible map at a time – this is the ultimate gift book for the budding geographer or anyone who wants to have a laugh.   Ever wondered about the average jean colour across the United States? Or what ‘pedestrians ... more

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  • Cover image of book Yoga for Stiff Birds by Marion Deuchars
    Yoga for Stiff Birds - by Marion Deuchars

    £10.00   hardback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781837760121 | ISBN 10: 1837760128

    Loosen up with a smile on your face... Marion Deuchars has practiced yoga for many years, and well knows the benefits it brings. Now she shares that passion with her illustrated character Bob the Bird, whose expressive poses will charm you into a rev ... 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 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 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 Dishonesty is the Second-Best Policy: And Other Rules to Live By by David Mitchell
    Dishonesty is the Second-Best Policy: And Other Rules to Live By - by David Mitchell

    £9.99   paperback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781783351985 | ISBN 10: 1783351985

    ** THE NEW BOOK FROM THE AWARD-WINNING COMEDIAN AND WRITER **   David Mitchell's 2014 bestseller Thinking About It Only Makes It Worse must really have made people think - because everything's got worse. We've gone from UKIP surge to Brexit sh ... 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 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 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 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 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 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 Festivals: A Survival Guide by Jo Hoare
    Festivals: A Survival Guide - by Jo Hoare

    £9.99   hardback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781909313873 | ISBN 10: 1909313874

    Every year when summer rolls around, millions of us sacrifice the joys of a comfortable bed and warm running water in favor of a weekend of debauchery in a field in the middle of nowhere. Whether you're planning a weekend hobnobbing with the A-lister ... 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 We Go to the Gallery by Miriam Elia
    We Go to the Gallery - by Miriam Elia

    £8.99   hardback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780992834913 | ISBN 10: 0992834910

    Miriam Elia's new take on a 1960s Ladybird book.  Peter, Jane and Mummy go to a gallery and learn about sex, death and contemporary art. ... 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 Twitterature: The World
    Twitterature: The World's Greatest Books Retold Through Twitter - by Alexander Aciman and Emmett Rensin

    £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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  • Cover image of book The Pocket Book of Boosh by Julian Barrat and Noel Fielding
    The Pocket Book of Boosh - by Julian Barrat and Noel Fielding

    £12.99   paperback   (2009) - ISBN 13: 9781847674142 | ISBN 10: 1847674143

    "Welcome to what will in no doubt be a groundbreaking work of collage / literature."(Howard Moon) "Hey Camden children, Vince here. Hope you dig the Boosh book and all the groovy photos Bollo took. Skip past Howard’s bits though. Well dry"(Vince N ... 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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