HUMOUR

Ten years in the making, Dribble! is an A-Z of credulity-twanging facts and stories about what Pele once memorably dubbed 'my bloody job'. It includes definitive explanations of everyday phrases...

SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE FROM 20TH CENTURY FOX My brother and I are looking for wedding dates for our cousin's wedding. We've been told by the bride...

Is there a hole in your week where a certain TV dating show used to be? Do you want to dive back into the pool of shimmering amorous advances and...

This new selection chosen by his daughter, the writer and broadcaster Stephanie Calman, is the first ever collection of the very best of his cartoons about being in love, falling...

We've all seen them, those splendid individuals with various tufts and waves sprouting from their faces like coiffured poodles, proud celebrators of the most perfunctory of facial arrangements: the beard.However...

Aunts have not had their due recognition - until now. But here, in the simple tasks and pleasures of her ordinary life, the aunt is portrayed with wonder and affection....

Mallory Ortberg presents...Texts from Jane Eyre is a whimsical collection of sharp, satirical and side-splittingly funny text message conversations from your favourite literary characters. Of course if Scarlett O'Hara had...

Most publishers keep a "slushpile" - the stack of unsolicited manuscripts which contains a large percentage of preposterous or frightening book proposals, which might just conceal that one jewel of...

How to be treated like shite in 15 different countries...and still quite like it! Stung by a ten-hour delay and a not-so-bargain fare to Spain on his native 'low fares'...

Ever wondered why some of the biggest problems the World faces from Global warming to poverty, never get resolved? The reason is simple: the solutions just aren't convenient. Radio &...

Donkeys were essential on Irish farms before tractors came along. Today, you're as likely to find them on film sets, modestly swapping stories with their co-stars, as happily grazing in...

Everyone likes a good joke while they have a drink with their chums in the pub, so what could be better than The Biggest Pub Joke Book? It contains 1,500...

Discover the best-kept secrets of how your cat chooses you, loves you, and subtly trains you to fulfill its every wish in this charming and irresistible funny cat guide, written...

Not for many years has there been such a divisive issue as Brexit, and like all divisive issues it has provided a bonanza for cartoonists. This generous selection of pocket...

The bestselling, blockbusting, bumper book of humorous quotations rides back into town with 6,000 more hilariously funny quotes. From times past to the modern day, classic funnies to contemporary wit,...

Winner of the Cannes Lions Bronze Award for Design 2013! In today's caffeine-charged, jet-fuelled, celebrity-a-minute world, who actually has the time to learn a thing or two? C'mon, let's face...

Sandi Toksvig - broadcaster, writer, actor, and seeker of all things whimsical, has turned her probing mind to many of the most intriguing questions of our times in the pages...

We're going on a bar hunt.We're going to find a cool one.The babysitter's booked.We're not old!Bestselling authors Emlyn Rees and Josie Lloyd also happen to be parents, so they understand...

Dear Human Race, It is with much regret, and a huge sigh of frustration, that I am writing this letter. For generations you have been taking our goodwill for granted...

'Completely brilliant' Ian HislopIt seemed a simple enough idea at the outset: to assemble a team of eleven men to play cricket on each of the seven continents of the...

Al Franken, one of America's savviest satirists has been studying the rhetoric of the Right. He has listened to their cries of 'slander', 'bias' and even 'treason'. He has examined...

Full of senior sagacity and elderly erudition, this hilarious survival guide is on hand to show you that it really is the life in your years that countsNow that you're...

Say stuffing balls to Christmas and survive the festive season with The Funny Christmas Stocking Filler BookGuaranteed to entertain and amuse, this book contains everything you need to get you...

In a carefully manicured garden, amid the pristine borders, prowls the irksome pest...Are you being bullied by a mollusc that slimes all over your garden and munches through your favourite...

*A Short History of the Apocalypse: your comprehensive guide to the challenges of Armageddon*Join Frankie Boyle (Saturday Night Swindle; Celebrity Vengeance) and Charlie Skelton (head writer: Ad Naseum; David Suchet's...

Nowadays, the world is full of people trying to tell us things. So much so that we have taught our brains not to pay much attention. After all, click the...

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...

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...