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Books are listed in order of year of publication - newest titles are at the top. There are 22 books in this booklist

  • Cover image of book Victoria Wood: Unseen on TV by Victoria Wood and Jasper Rees (Editor)
    Victoria Wood: Unseen on TV - by Victoria Wood and Jasper Rees (Editor)

    £9.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781398707474 | ISBN 10: 1398707473

    ‘There was none like her before and there’s been none like her since’ ~ Dawn French  In the five years since Victoria Wood’s death, one great sadness has been the realisation that we will never again be surprised by new material from he ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Fran Lebowitz Reader by Fran Lebowitz
    The Fran Lebowitz Reader - by Fran Lebowitz

    £18.99   hardback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9780349015880 | ISBN 10: 0349015880

    Acerbic, wisecracking and hilarious, this is the definitive essay collection from New York legend and satirist, Fran Lebowitz, star of Martin Scorsese’s hit Netflix series, Pretend It’s a City.  Lebowitz turns her trademark caustic wit to ... more

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  • Cover image of book Confessions of a Bookseller by Shaun Bythell
    Confessions of a Bookseller - by Shaun Bythell

    £8.99   paperback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781788162319 | ISBN 10: 1788162315

    Tricky customers, rude staff and everyone's favourite misanthropic bookseller: it's the second volume of the Sunday Times bestselling bookshop diaries, now available in paperback.  "Do you have a list of your books, or do I just have to stare ... more

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  • Cover image of book Abject Quizzery: The Thoroughly Depressing Quiz Book by Karl Shaw
    Abject Quizzery: The Thoroughly Depressing Quiz Book - by Karl Shaw

    £12.99   hardback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781910400661 | ISBN 10: 1910400661

    SNUFF OUT YOUR INNER OPTIMIST AND JUSTIFY YOUR CONSTANT GLOOM WITH THE ULTIMATE QUIZ BOOK FOR THESE DEPLORABLE TIMES.  Contains 834 questions, all with dispiriting answers, such as: 1. At what age does the human brain begin to deteriorate? 2. ... more

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  • Cover image of book Think Like a White Man: Conquering the World... While Black by Dr Boulé Whytelaw III and Nels Abbey
    Think Like a White Man: Conquering the World... While Black - by Dr Boulé Whytelaw III and Nels Abbey

    £12.99   hardback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781786894342 | ISBN 10: 1786894343

    A bold, satirical humour book on how to achieve success like a Great White Male.  By following the White Man Commandments – namely, that winning justifies anything and everything – you too can achieve success beyond your capabilities.  Wi ... 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 William Shakespeare
    William Shakespeare's The Force Doth Awaken: Star Wars Part the Seventh - by Ian Doescher

    £11.99   hardback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781594749858 | ISBN 10: 159474985x

    Experience The Force Awakens as a Shakespeare play, complete with Elizabethan verse, Shakespearian monologues, and theatrical stage directions!   As the noble Resistance clashes with the vile First Order, Rey, Finn, Poe Dameron, Kylo Ren, and BB- ... more

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  • Cover image of book The
    The 'Call Yourself British?' Quiz Book - by Michael Odell

    £9.99   hardback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9780857525413 | ISBN 10: 0857525417

    Find out just how British you jolly well are: 500 multiple choice questions based on the Home Office Citizenship test.  Can you beat the 51% of British 18- to 24-year-olds who failed the test? Includes genuine, nationality-defining questions ... more

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  • Cover image of book Alan Partridge: Nomad by Alan Partridge
    Alan Partridge: Nomad - by Alan Partridge

    £8.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781409156710 | ISBN 10: 1409156710

    The deeply personal follow-up to Alan Partridge's deeply personal autobiography, I, Partridge, charting the highs, lows and mediums of his one-man walking tour around (certain parts of) Britain.   In Alan Partridge: Nomad, Alan dons his boots, ... more

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  • Cover image of book I Wonder What I
    I Wonder What I'm Thinking About? - by Moose Allain

    £20.00   hardback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781783523689 | ISBN 10: 1783523689

    An illustrated insight into the world of the artist, cartoonist and prolific tweeter. "I wonder what I'm thinking about? As an artist people sometimes ask me what my work is like (particularly if they haven't seen it…). It's a question that ... more

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  • Cover image of book Spectacles: A Memoir by Sue Perkins
    Spectacles: A Memoir - by Sue Perkins

    £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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  • Cover image of book Hopeful: An Autobiography by Omid Djalili
    Hopeful: An Autobiography - by Omid Djalili

    £9.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781472218667 | ISBN 10: 1472218663

    A beautifully written, joyously funny memoir about growing up and finding fame as a young Iranian in London.  Omid Djalili's childhood was unconventional, to say the least. He was raised in a beautiful, chaotic, cramped, colourful and legally dubiou ... 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 Let
    Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls - by David Sedaris

    £9.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9780349119427 | ISBN 10: 0349119422

    A new roundup of personal essays from the No. 1 bestselling writer named by Time as America's Favourite Humorist.  A guy walks into a bar...   From here the story could take many turns. A guy walks into a bar and meets the love of his life. A guy ... more

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  • Cover image of book I Can Make You Hate by Charlie Brooker
    I Can Make You Hate - by Charlie Brooker

    £10.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9780571297740 | ISBN 10: 0571297749

    Would you like to eat whatever you want and still lose weight? Who wouldn't? Keep dreaming, imbecile.   In the meantime, if you'd like to read something that alternates between laugh-out-loud-funny and apocalyptically angry, keep holding this ... more

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  • Cover image of book Camp David by David Walliams
    Camp David - by David Walliams

    £9.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9780241957721 | ISBN 10: 0241957729

    It's time to get serious with Britain's favourite funny man - Camp David, by David Walliams.   David Walliams has been the camp aide to the Prime Minister, the rubbish transvestite and the long-suffering wheelchair pusher for an able-bodied ... more

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  • Cover image of book I, Partridge: We Need to Talk About Alan by Alan Partridge
    I, Partridge: We Need to Talk About Alan - by Alan Partridge

    £9.99   paperback   (2012) - ISBN 13: 9780007449187 | ISBN 10: 0007449186

    Journalist, presenter, broadcaster, husband, father, vigorous all-rounder – Alan Partridge – a man with a fascinating past and an amazing future. Gregarious and popular, yet Alan’s never happier than when relaxing in his own five-bedroom, south-built ... more

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  • Cover image of book Brideshead Abbreviated: The Digested Read of the Twentieth Century by John Crace
    Brideshead Abbreviated: The Digested Read of the Twentieth Century - by John Crace

    £9.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9780099505457 | ISBN 10: 0099505452

    John Crace's 'Digested Read' column in the Guardian has rightly acquired a cult following. Each week fans avidly devour his latest razor-sharp literary assassination, while authors turn tremblingly to the appropriate page of the review section, fearf ... more

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  • Cover image of book A Twitter Year: 365 Days in 140 Characters by Kate Bussmann
    A Twitter Year: 365 Days in 140 Characters - by Kate Bussmann

    £10.00   hardback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781408828472 | ISBN 10: 1408828472

    Where can you find first-hand accounts of the Arab Spring, Japan's nuclear disaster or the Norwegian atrocities? Thousands flouting celebrity superinjunctions? X-rated snaps of politicians? A babysitter mistaken for a cricket match? Or Darth Vader's ... more

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  • Cover image of book Tickling the English by Dara O Briain
    Tickling the English - by Dara O Briain

    £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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  • Cover image of book Little People in the City: The Street Art of Slinkachu by Slinkachu with Will Self
    Little People in the City: The Street Art of Slinkachu - by Slinkachu with Will Self

    £10.99   hardback   (2008) - ISBN 13: 9780752226644 | ISBN 10: 0752226649

    They’re 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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  • 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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