HUMOUR

These are dark days. The world is seething with imbeciles and poltroons. Everywhere the careless and thoughtless are charging about the place in hulking 4x4s, or inviting Channel 4 to...

Peter Cave once again takes the reader on a witty, engaging romp through a glorious compendium of philosophical puzzles. With the aid of tall stories, jokes, common sense, and bizarre...

Most of us either have a mother-in-law or will be one, and it's not a role most women take on gladly. Mothers-in-law are traditionally the butt of jokes, declared to...

These delightfully irreverent odes on the ups, downs and roundabouts of being a grandparent will help you unwind after handing back the little blighters at the end of the day!

'I keep fit. Every morning I do 100 laps of an Olympic-sized swimming pool - in a small motor launch' - Peter Cook. 'The older one grows, the more one...

Take a nostalgic trip back to a time when children played on the street, the local bobby could clip your ear and anywhere beyond Bridlington was an exotic holiday. Awwww,...

Discover the inner thoughts and feelings from the legendary musicians. A hilarious gift for Oasis fans! In early 2025, a mysterious cache of papers was discovered in a skip in...

Have you ever found that once you are between the sheets Madame Bovary is too heavy, magazines are too slippery, and The Guns of Navarone too long? In that case...

'Essential reading for adults of all ages . . . the wisest, funniest, most thoughtful thing yet written on the subject of PC' ObserverIn this bestselling classic, James Finn Garner...

'This book is funny, clever and, at times, heartbreaking. In other words, Jewish' David Baddiel'[Baum is] intellectually luminous, psychologically penetrating, existentially anxious, and wonderfully funny' Zadie Smith'Hilarious and thought-provoking' David...

From the team behind the super-popular Instagram @MyTherapistSays comes this humorous guide that chronicles the exhausting task of navigating the daily, anxiety-ridden struggle that we fondly call life. Including hilarious...

If your idea of international relations is summed up more by 'bugger the Belgians' and 'a pox on the Poles' than 'I'd like to teach the world to sing', then...

In this brand-new title, part of her hugely popular ongoing series of hilarious gift books, Cath Tate, doyenne of the comedy greetings card, examines the world of work - something...

Driving Us Insane reveals the presenter of TV's cult motoring series Bottom Gear as he has never been revealed before. Week by week, car by car, stunt by stunt and...

Written by bestselling author Boris Starling, Pets is one of the new titles for 2017 in the Haynes Explains series. A light-hearted and entertaining take on the classic workshop manual,...

... And we're back!Dads, we see you. In a perpetual state of "Dad Mode", juggling work, family, an inexplicable desire to nap on the couch, and the sad notion that...

Craft beer, vinyl, trendy trainers, vintage bikes: it's not a midlife crisis, it's a state of mindAre you a man of a certain age who feels more at home at...

We all have a friend in our group that nobody really likes. Everyone knows someone in a dead end relationship they'd like to end easily. Every office has an employee...

An A-Z of Hellraisers is the last word on inebriated misbehaviour, and the miscreant mob in this whopper of a book constitute the most amazing grouping to see print, from...

The Armstrong and Miller Book is the brilliantly funny new book from Armstrong (and, indeed, Miller). This hilarious compendium of entirely original material is packed with favourites such as the...

When Groucho Marx was well into his eighties, Charlotte Chandler approached him about writing a profile of him for a magazine. Groucho invited Charlotte to meet and that meeting grew...

Like its predecessor The End of the Question Mark, but also including the answers given by Stephen Fry and other celebrities to questions put to them by, this is based...

Eccentrically - indeed, irresponsibly - compiled, packed with bizarre ideas, hopeless theories, impossible dreams, preposterous statements, loony prophecies, mad scientists, demented technicians, useless inventions, and much of the often deranged...

Avoiding shellfish was easy. The stoning of adulterers proved a little more difficult - and potentially controversial. Was it enough to walk up to an adulterer and gently touch them...

In 2008, Thomas "TomSka" Ridgewell uploaded a short animated film to YouTube; he called it asdfmovie. It has since been viewed more than 50 million times and has spawned eight...

Have you ever queued, exasperated by the repeated cry of 'next' and asked the man in front, 'Are you deaf?' only to discover that he is? Who hasn't tried to...

I Can Resist Everything Except Temptation is a celebration of the virtuoso of well-turned phrases and the master of the studied insult - Oscar Wilde. Indeed, so perfect were Wilde's...

It was the year that saw Rangers Football Club face administration, that saw Greece struggle with teetering debt, that saw Scots wrestle with the idea of a referendum on independence,...

How To Read This BookIf you're reading this sentence then you've pretty much gotit. Good job. Just keep going the way you are.Some Honours and Awards for which Demetri Martin...

Is Man the only animal that laughs?Why are clowns so scary?Do jokes make children more intelligent?Are men funnier than women?Can God take a joke?What's brown and sticky?Top comedian Jimmy Carr...

THE BRAND-NEW BOOK FROM @DADSAYSJOKESAll New Dad Jokes is the second book from the most followed dad jokes page on Instagram, @DadSaysJokes. Now with a following of over 5 million...

Hot off the back of her incredibly popular Monday Punday online series, Gemma Correll has surveyed her army of punning fans to create this hilarious collection of her best illustrated...

'These tongue-in-cheek books [will] have you chuckling over your Christmas dinner' - PrimaTHE PERFECT GIFT FOR ANYONE WHO IS, MIRACULOUSLY, STILL IN A RELATIONSHIP Be prepared and know exactly what...

Stephen Fry's secret wife speaks out at last...Enjoyed a nice cuppa this morning with a HobNob and Jeremy Kyle. There was a woman on there who'd been married 16 years...

To run away to Brazil, turn to 34.To get a tattoo, turn to 147.To burn your house down, turn to 145.Midway through our lives, we wonder how we ended up...

The nation's favourite idiot is back. Safely home from his latest travels, Karl has decided it is time to share his hard-earned wisdom of the world.Taking the Bucket List of...

When the cubicle police outlaw plastic plants for fear they will attract dumb bugs, Dilbert takes a stand. However, back in his cubicle, he sweats out his decision to harbour...

As Brexit reaches its final stretch, find a way to laugh through the pain and or celebrate the end with Ladybird's hilarious and essential guide, The Story of Brexit.'Hilarious' STYLIST________'"Leaving...

A book containing every joke guaranteed to annoy those who like to think of themselves as politically correct. It deliberately sets out to offend "prudes and those who take life...