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Books are listed in order of year of publication - newest titles are at the top. There are 19 books in this booklist

  • 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 The Jewish Joke: An essay with examples (less essay, more examples) by Devorah Baum
    The Jewish Joke: An essay with examples (less essay, more examples) - by Devorah Baum

    £9.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781781255230 | ISBN 10: 1781255237

    The Jewish joke is as old as Abraham, and like the Jews themselves it has wandered over the world, learned countless new languages, worked with a range of different materials, been performed in front of some pretty hostile crowds, but still retained ... 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 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 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 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 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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