Humour Books
EOE Productions The Lost Quatrains of Nostradamus
£11.50
Jonathan C. Smith GOD SPEAKS The Pastafarian Quatrains
£12.50
Green Life Company, LLC Why Is Daddy Sad on Sunday A Coloring Book Depicting the Most Disappointing Moments in Cleveland Sports
£14.76
Houghton Mifflin Jack Tales Folk Tales from the Southern
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£13.11
Over the Rainbow Over the Rainbow The First 10 Years of South
Book SynopsisThis cartoon collection takes a satirical look at the fascinating first 10 years of South Africa's democracy through the eyes of the author. The title includes Gus Silber's 'It takes two to toyi-toyi'.Table of Contents93-96; 1997; 1997; 1999; 2000; 2001; 2002; 2003.
£12.30
KMM Review Publishing Let Them Eat Cake How I Ate My Way Through Mbeki
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£11.35
KMM Review Publishing Zulu Boy Gone Crazy Hilarious Tales Post
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£11.35
BK Publishing Shaggy
Book SynopsisShaggy stories include a cast of some of the most manipulative, ingratiating, disillusioned, egotistical, inauthentic, spiteful narcissists operating in contemporary South Africa. You will encounter fourteen first-hand shaggy stories told by a rogues gallery of scheming misanthropes whose speeches are full of sound and fury, signifying very little.
£8.55
Michael Walmer Yet Again
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£14.20
Purple Lemon Creative Never Run Out We all have a roll to play
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£6.79
Lefd Designs The Smart Ass Book of Puns
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£12.99
Little Pink Dog Books Peanut
Book SynopsisA humorous jungle adventure about a troop of mischievous monkeys who while helping a lost and rather noisy baby elephant named Peanut, to find his mamma, discover that elephants can climb up trees. Even more surprising, they discover that enormous hungry crocodiles can shimmy up a tree even faster than a baby elephant. The monkeys reunite a very emotional Peanut with his joyous mamma and the elephant herd, while a terrified crocodile wonders how on earth hes ever going to get down from the rather tall tree hes just climbed up.
£12.34
Bolinda Publishing Sounds Like Sammy J
Book SynopsisThis CD features laugh-out-loud highlights from Series 1 & 2 of Sammy J's weekly ABC political sketches.Join Sammy as he tackles the big issues of the day, wrestles them to the ground, then submits them to a variety of yoga moves, sporting analogies and craft activities.Series 11.The Ballad of Section 44 2.Now is Not the Time3.The NBN Rollout4.Budget Match 5.Trip of a Lifetime 6.Royal Commission into Barnaby Joyce's Interview7.Talking Pollie8.African Gangs 9.Losing It10.Antiques Showcase11.Libspill Yoga 12.National Icon Sale 13.No Hard Feelings14.Apology 2068Series 21.Banking Yoga 2.Fence Jumpers 3.Nice Shoes 4.Brexit Yoga 5.Monsters 6.Royal Commission into Jacinda Ardern Becoming Australian PM 7.J-Bet 8.School Holiday Yoga 9.Goodbye, Queensland 10.Je Suis Scomo 11.ALP Yoga 12.How to Make a Search Warrant 13.The Spirit of the Game 14.Royal Commission into Douchebags 15.Die of Not Surprise
£11.24
Presbyterian Publishing Corporation The Gospel According to Peanuts
Book SynopsisWhile Charlie Brown, Snoopy, Lucy, Linus, and the rest of the Peanuts gang have enjoyed the kind of success most cartoon characters can only dream about--becoming pop culture icons of the highest order and entering the global consciousness practically as family members--Robert Short's The Gospel According to Peanuts also has found a place in...
£17.10
Westminster/John Knox Press,U.S. The Gospel according to The Simpsons Bigger and
Book SynopsisIs there anything holy in Springfield, the home to irascible Bart Simpson and his naive dad Homer, their enthusiastic evangelical neighbor Ned Flanders, the sourpuss minister Rev. Lovejoy, and the dozens of other unique characters who inhabit the phenomenally popular TV show? In this revision of the 2001 bestseller, author Mark Pinsky says...
£18.05
Penguin Random House Australia The Wayward Leunig Cartoons That Wandered Off
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£25.64
Penguin Books Ltd Parting Shots
Book SynopsisMatthew Parris''s Parting Shots is a treasure trove of wit, venom and serious analysis.Up till 2006 a British Ambassador leaving his post was encouraged to write what was known as a valedictory despatch, to be circulated to a small number of influential people in government. This was the parting shot, an opportunity to offer a personal and frank view of the host country, the manners and morals of its people, their institutions, the state of their cooking and their drains. But it was also a chance to let rip at the Foreign Office itself and to look back on a career spent in the service of a sometimes ungrateful nation.Combining gems from the archives with more recent despatches obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, Parting Shots sheds light on Britain''s place in the world, revealing the curious cocktail of privilege and privation that makes up the life of an ambassador.''Wonderful ... a glimpse of that lost world of private eloquence and erudite candour'' Matthew d''Ancona, Evening Standard''Unbuttoned, indiscreet and very funny'' Yorkshire PostMatthew Parris had a short career in the Foreign Office where one of his tasks was to distribute incoming valedictory despatches. He was a Conservative MP from 1979 to 1986, since when he has worked as a journalist. He is the author of A Castle in Spain, Parting Shots, and A Spanish Ambassador''s Suitcase. He divides his time between Derbyshire (where his old constituency was situated) and east London.
£10.44
Simon & Schuster The New Yorker Book of Literary Cartoons
£11.39
Simon & Schuster The Geek Handbook
Book SynopsisWritten to mimic traditional software manuals, this humorous guide to geekdom covers all the basics of being a computer nerd in the new millennium. Original.Trade ReviewJon Katz author of Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho Timely, funny...genuinely useful....I laughed out loud.Eric S. Raymond author of The New Hacker's Dictionary This book may save your relationship. Better yet, it may help you get in touch with your own inner geek.Jon Katz The Geek Handbook has a vey helpful, even touching, quality to it. Geeks are now running the systems that run the world, and this handbook will help you live with them, work with them, and sometimes even love them. As Halpin points out so skillfully, that isn't always easy.Table of ContentsContentsChapter One: Getting Started1.1 The Conventions Used in This HandbookWhy "your" geek isn't really yours1.2 How to Use This HandbookReference, maintenance, troubleshooting 1.3 Do I Have a Geek?A helpful diagnostic 1.4 You and Your GeekThe various models and configurations. Features and tips Chapter Two: Basics 2.1 The Inner GeekUnderstanding your geek's emotional landscape 2.2 Communicating with Your GeekThe interpersonal infobahn 2.3 Geek-to-Geek RelationsHow geeks behave in groups. The role of role-playing 2.4 Upgrading Your GeekEncouraging your geek to perform more complicated tasks Chapter Three: Maintenance 3.1 The Importance of Preventive Care"Make the most of the container you've got" 3.2 Your Geek's DietAssessing your geek's dietary needs. Altering your geek's nutritional program 3.3 Your Geek's Cycles and RoutinesRunning on machine time, not biological 3.4 Your Geek's Moving Parts"A fit body is more efficient, honey" 3.5 Common Geek Bugs and Suggestions for FixesNip those nasty start-ups in the bud Chapter Four: Living in a Geek World 4.1 Planning for the FutureYour geek's legacy 4.2 Your Geek's LifespanLife extension and risk management 4.3 Your Geek's Role in the New EconomyLife in a technocracy 4.4 Geek Values Go GlobalHow geek culture can change the world
£11.43
Simon & Schuster The Little Book Of Complete Bollocks
Book SynopsisIt is sad that the original meaning of bollocks has been corrupted for in this little book lies profound wisdom. After all, size is not everything. Be kind to yourself. Give yourself treats. Leave little love letters to yourself around the house where you can discover them by chance when hoovering. Start your new life now. Don''t read the T-shirt. Buy this book. 144 insights that will change your life.
£6.30
Simon & Schuster Australia What You Dont Know about Turning 50 A Funny
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£7.59
Simon & Schuster TROUT BUM
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£15.99
Simon & Schuster C D B
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£6.79
Prentice Hall (a Pearson Education company) Italian Without Words
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£8.57
£10.05
Alfred A. Knopf The New Yorker Book of Dog Cartoons
Book SynopsisHere's the dog's life as seen through the eyes and imaginations of, among others, Charles Addams, Edward Koren, Saul Steinberg, and the dog's all-time best friend, James Thurber. 101 cartoons in all from The New Yorker over the past 65 years.
£20.25
Alfred A. Knopf The New Yorker Book of Lawyer Cartoons
Book SynopsisCritically acclaimed cartoonists including Addams, Steig, Arno, Shanahan, and Leo Cullum take pot shots at the legal profession in a collection of eighty-five cartoons from the pages of The New Yorker.
£17.10
Alfred A. Knopf The New Yorker Book of Cat Cartoons
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£12.75
Random House USA Inc Et Tu Babe
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£11.90
Random House USA Inc You Got to Dance with Them What Brung You
Book SynopsisIn her long-awaited new collection, the Colt Peacekeeper of American politicalhumor draws a bead on targets that range from the Libido-in-Chief to NewtGingrich, campaign funny-money to the legislative lunacy of her native Texas--andhits a bull's-eye every time.Whether she's writing about Bill Clinton ('The Rodney Dangerfield ofpresidents'), Bob Dole ('Dole contributed perhaps the funniest line of the yearwith his immortal observation that tobacco is not addictive but that too muchmilk might be bad for us. The check from the dairy lobby must have been latethat week'), or cultural trends ('I saw a restaurant in Seattle that specializedin latte and barbecue. Barbecue and latte. I came home immediately'), Mollytakes on the issues of the day with her trademark good sense and inimitable wit.
£12.34
Random House USA Inc The Fran Lebowitz Reader
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£13.49
Alfred A. Knopf The New Yorker Book of Dog Cartoons
Book Synopsis101 cartoons.
£10.82
Alfred A. Knopf The New Yorker Book of Lawyer Cartoons
Book SynopsisPerhaps Shakespeare said it best--first, kill all the lawyers. Now, the profession we most love to hate is hilariously portrayed by some of the greatest cartoonists of our time, including James Thurber and Charles Addams, in this small-format collection of cartoons taken from the pages of The New Yorker magazine.
£12.75
Random House USA Inc Very Bad Poetry Vintage
Book SynopsisWriting very bad poetry requires talent. It helps to have a wooden ear for words, a penchant for sinking into a mire of sentimentality, and an enviable confidence that allows one to write despite absolutely appalling incompetence.The 131 poems collected in this first-of-its-kind anthology are so glaringly awful that they embody a kind of genius. From Fred Emerson Brooks' 'The Stuttering Lover' to Matthew Green's 'The Spleen' to Georgia Bailey Parrington's misguided 'An Elegy to a Dissected Puppy', they mangle meter, run rampant over rhyme, and bludgeon us into insensibility with their grandiosity, anticlimax, and malapropism.Guaranteed to move even the most stoic reader to tears (of laughter), Very Bad Poetry is sure to become a favorite of the poetically inclined (and disinclined).
£10.79
Random House USA Inc Skinnybones
Book SynopsisIf you thought Junie B. Jones was FUNNY—catch more laughs from New York Times bestselling author Barbara Park with Skinnybones! Just right for fans of Diary of a Wimpy Kid and I Funny, Skinnybones has been a kid and teacher favorite for almost thirty years and has sold over 1 MILLION copies! Play ball??? Alex Frankovitch is the smallest, second-worst kid on his team. But he has a MAJOR-LEAGUE-sized mouth. And it gets him into MAJOR-LEAGUE trouble! Even Alex knows he’s gone too far when he brags his way into a pitching contest with T.J. Stoner, the best player—and BIGGEST jerk—in the whole school (and maybe the whole world!). Can Alex talk his way out this mess? Or is he in for the GRAND SLAM of all humiliations? Find out in the award-winning, laugh-out-loud novel from the New York Times bestselling author of Junie B. Jones! “Park is one of the funniest writers around. Skinnybones equals tickled funnybones.” —Booklist “Hilarious! Even if you don’t know center field from first base this story will keep you laughing.” —Children’s Book Review Service “Park writes…in a way that touches reality, but makes the reader double over with laughter.” —Chicago Sun-Times
£9.15
Simon & Schuster When the Teacher Isnt Looking And Other Funny
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£8.99
Running Press Adult What You Dont Know about Turning 40 A Funny
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£8.99
The Angry Book
Trade ReviewSan Francisco Examiner An illuminating, revelatory document.S. Dave Babbitt Speaking of Books If his observations are correct, the screamers among us are doing all right. But watch out for those cold and quiet cats.Table of ContentsIntroduction1 BEGINNINGSEven the SaintsLearningLet Freedom RingVictims of VictimsTwo Big BlocksOne Smaller Block2 PERVERSIONSPutting It DownPutting It OffPutting It OnDiluting ItFreezing It3 TWISTING IT: THE ASSORTED POISONSAnxietyDepressionGuilt, Overeating, Self-Imposed StarvationNo Sleep and Sleep SleepTomorrow and Tomorrow: Chronic Anticipation, Obsessive Ruminating, Peculiar ThoughtsTraps: Obsessions, Compulsions, Phobias"No, No, No! A Thousand Times No!" -- DenialSelf-SabotageSweet, Sweet, Sweet, and the Blood Pressure Goes Up, Up, UpTalk, Talk, Talk, and No TalkLet's Pretend: Imitations of AngerBullyingSupersweet TalkBlatant BlastingOverworking, Oversexing, OverexercisingSaversSubtle Sabotage"I'm with You"Half-Poisons"Don't Worry About Me"Easy TalkAuto PoisonTelling the TruthSpread It Around"Someone Dies"Always TiredJoking and BoringPhony Peace"I'm So Sick"ForevermorePoison Poisons: DrugsJuice-StewingSlush-Fund ExplosionsShort Circuits4 UNTWISTING: PROPHYLAXIS AND ANTIDOTESWhat Is It?Black and WhiteFeel and TellTimingWhoAnger Doesn't KillDrop Dead!Forgive and ForgetWith or Without JusticeAppropriate and InappropriateBy the SexBy AgeWarm, Cold, and In-BetweenAll or NothingThe Big Blow-UpTo Be Angry and to Be Mad While the Storm Blows Angry Psychiatrists5 TAKING A CHANCE ON ANGERQuestions
£12.12
Prentice Hall (a Pearson Education company) Into the Twilight Endlessly Grousing
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£17.09
HarperCollins Publishers Inc Jewish Humour
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£14.39
Princeton University Press The Poetry Lesson
Book SynopsisTrade Review"This book, with its punishing, dread-inspiring title and pleading skeleton on the cover, is actually one of the funniest, most irreverent you'll read this year. Part memoir, part novel, part poem, part essay... The Poetry Lesson requires the willing suspension of credulity and a reader's refusal to get offended, hard as Andrei Codrescu may try. He's not quite Borat in emeritus robes, but almost."--Susan Salter Reynolds, Los Angeles Times "Andrei Codrescu's The Poetry Lesson, the description of a single, three-hour poetry-writing class, is genuinely entertaining... [I]t is ... funny, moving, daring and even, at times, profound... The book is a kind of ode to eccentricity, to imagination within the institution."--Jonathan Taylor, Times Literary Supplement "A series of zany autobiographical sketches and satirical reflections on youth, literature, and academia."--Anthony Cummins, Literary Review "Beneath Codrescu's wacky, self-amused teaching methods, perfected poet-in-a-phrase descriptions, off-kilter teacher-student dialogue and old-timer digressions, there can be found a pestering ambivalence toward the university and a suspicion that he is a hypocrite."--Yelena Akhtiorskaya, Forward "You should read this book and absorb its lessons as soon as possible."--J.C. Hallman, Quarterly Conversation "This genially disillusioned, free-associative romp delivers plenty of pleasures in the course of 118 pages... Faced with time and mortality--the quintessential poetic subjects--Codrescu does what great artists have done for millennia: He tells stories, writes poems, and, yes, he teaches."--Chris Waddington, New Orleans Times-Picayune "Codrescu proceeds headlong in an altogether entertaining 'pedagogical-memorialistic mode.'... Ultimately, this book is about Codrescu's prickly narrative voice and the delight he takes in blabbing. It's a voice confident in its charming idiosyncrasies, spicier than his NPR pieces."--Ron Slate, On the Seawall "Not a creative writing 'how-to' manual, not an essay, not a novel, not a memoir--The Poetry Lesson resists genre classification with all the radical aplomb of an angry beatnik refusing to tick the 'which-age-demographic' box on a government census form."--Chris Jones, Times Higher Education Supplement "The Poetry Lesson is a lucid yet playful book, that slips between memoir and fiction, jaunty anecdote and pure tangent, as it describes the first lesson of an 'Introduction to Poetry Writing' course."--Rupert Thomson, Berlin Review of Books "A fast-paced bit of pedagogical stand-up, interspersing personal recollections of various 20th century poets with whimsical observations on poetic craft and modern culture in a stream-of-consciousness style that blurs the line between inner and outer monologues... A witty and heartfelt case for poetry's end being its beginning."--Alex Good, Toronto Star "The Poetry Lesson finds Codrescu hovering over the borders between fiction, the conventional essay and even the poetic forms."--Ben Steelman, Star News (Wilmington, NC) "[O]ne feels incredible gratitude to and connection with this living poet. Andrei Codrescu makes clear not only that poetry does matter, but that our lives depend upon it. For him, poetry is not so much a mystery as it is a knowable entity, even a teachable one. From all the evidence in this short, gorgeous work, it seems equally clear that Andrei Codrescu was a great teacher."--M. G. Stephens, PN ReviewTable of Contents*FrontMatter, pg. i*The Poetry Lesson, pg. 1
£16.19
Princeton University Press Discovering the Comic
Book SynopsisArguing that the comic is a quality of literary works of art in other forms as well as comedy, George McFadden finds its essence in the maintenance of some literary feature--a situation, a character--as itself despite threats to alter it. Originally published in 1982. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to agaiTable of Contents*FrontMatter, pg. i*CONTENTS, pg. vii*PREFACE, pg. ix*Introduction, pg. 1*1. The Comic as a Literary Quality, pg. 10*2. Description of the Comic as a General Feature in Literature, pg. 22*3. Comic Ethos: The Classical View, pg. 49*4. The Romantic Theory of the Comic, pg. 80*5. The Modern Comic Ethos: Bergson's Laughter, pg. 111*6. Modern Comic Ethos Continued: Freud, pg. 131*7. Twentieth-Century Theorists: Mauron, Cornford, Frye, pg. 152*8. Nietzschean Values in Comic Writing, pg. 174*9. After Barthes: Death of the Comic?, pg. 204*10. Conclusions and Continuing Issues, pg. 242*Selected Bibliography, pg. 255*Index of Names and Titles, pg. 263*Subject Index, pg. 266
£34.00
Steven M. Johnson Patent Depending Vehicles
£16.09
University of Queensland Press 5 Ways to Carry a Goat A Bloggers World Tour
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£27.50
Scholastic The Day We Saved the Future
Book SynopsisAction-packed, laugh-out-loud, high-energy middle grade for boys and girls celebrating family, friendship and brotherhood, and starring a time-travelling supercar. From TV personalities and street dance superstars, brothers Ashley and Jordan Banjo.
£9.93
Scholastic Twenty Elves at Bedtime
Book SynopsisMixing elves, counting and bedtime, children will love this brilliantlyfun picture book!
£9.09
Scholastic Twenty Bunnies at Bedtime
Book SynopsisOnce upon a bouncy bed . . . What's the best way to help little ones fall asleep?By counting super fluffy bunnies, of course!With hopping, jumping and leaping bunnies on every page, and a funstory showing children how to count from one to twenty, this cuteand cuddly counting book is set to become every child's new favourite.
£6.99
Scholastic The Stinky Wonky Donkey PB
Book SynopsisIn this gorgeous addition to the Wonky Donkey collection, Dinky Donkey tells us all about which animals she loves the best of all. And whether it's a reindeer, a zebra, a horse or a camel, one thing's for sure: our cute friend Dinky Donkey loves ALL creatures!
£6.99
