HUMOUR

You have to hand it to children. They do have a wonderfully straightforward view of the world, and a way with words that manages to make day-to-day life much more...

With over 10,000 entries, arranged by topic and fully indexed, here is a giant new collection of witticisms and wisecracks for the 21st century. If you're looking for a bon...

Harry Hill's unexpurgated diary of his year promises to do for the celebrity memoir what the Hadron Collider has done for particle acceleration. Think Samuel Pepys meets Katie Price.This frank...

Who is Pusheen? This collection of oh-so-cute kitty comics-featuring the chubby, tubby tabby who has taken the Internet by storm-will fill you in on all the basics. Things you should...

No Groucho is not my real name, I'm just breaking it in for a friend.' Presenting the greatest and most hilarious examples of Groucho, one of the most influential and...

Lacking that certain finesse at social functions Lost your savoir-faire Never know what to say Modern Manners has all the answers. How, for instance, do you introduce a younger sister...

Wherever Paris Hilton goes - and she goes to a lot of places - her dog Tinkerbell goes too, whether it's to the hottest nightclub in New York, shopping on...

Lazy, erratic, unreasonable, self-absorbed - Sound like your cat? Or your boss? Or both? The horrible management decisions suddenly make sense, don't they? The dashing, self-important title character of Business...

The most enduringly popular poetical verse form in the English language is very much alive and well.This monster volume of 2,000 limericks ranges from clean to (moderately) filthy, all guaranteed...

'Every weekend, thousands of otherwise rational men and women are cursing, kicking at divots and smashing expensively milled putters against the trunks of immovable hardwood trees. These players go home...

Expect the unexpected in this ridiculously named, reassuringly chunky book, jam-packed full of eye-openingly absurd facts, lies, half-truths, thoughts, suggestions and musings with more footnotes than an orchestra of millipedes....

"In The Bath: Conquering the Channel in a Piece of Plumbing" is a celebration of the epic absurd, an attempt to explain just how out of hand things can become...

A collection of cartoons from the Far Side. Other work by the author includes Night of the Crash Test Dummies , In Search of the Far Side and Cows of...

As we prepare to wave the President out of the White House, commemorate the past four years with this charming introduction to his very important life and his many, many...

Invective and insult are alive and well. This book brings together the classic and modern jibe, both well-known and obscure. It is unsparing in its search for the impolite. If...

Fastest wins. Your adventure starts now ... This is a race. It is not a race against the clock, because that would be a far easier race. Clocks can be...

Romans! Madrigals! The Dark Ages! Evolutions! Trumpets! The Oranges of The First World War!All of this (except trumpets) and more is covered in this definitive, illustrated, easy-clean history of all...

Waterford Whispers News 2017 is the fourth annual from Ireland's leading online satirical site, featuring the funniest stories of the year, including the latest on Garda scandals, Donald Trump, Brexit,...

Seven pants-peeingly funny stories featuring seven evil characters you can't help but love: Douglas Coupland's stories are illustrated with dark charm by Graham Roumieu in a collaboration that brings together...

I don't think we're going to get an award tonight. I would hedge my bets and say no. Carol Decker I never comment on referees and I'm not going to...

'Trust me, you'll be sniggering to yourself so it might be best to not read this on public transport' Writer's Little HelperIt's said that everyone has a book inside them....

A beautifully hand-lettered and illustrated story of a woman and the salvation she finds through chocolate. Edward Monkton's latest stylish and collectable book is the perfect gift for mums on...

In David Sedaris's world, no one is safe and no cow is sacred. A manic cross between Mark Leyner, Fran Lebowitz and the National Enquirer, Sedaris's collection of stories and...

This tribute to Spike Milligan looks back over his career using scripts from his television and radio shows as well as excerpts from his books and poems. Each excerpt is...

In this hilarious book of cartoons Williams ruminates on what's become of the bankers who no longer find themselves in the positions they once enjoyed. It's a world where learning...

The concept of 'governance' has become a central catchword across the social and political sciences. In "Governing and Governance", Jan Kooiman revisits and develops his seminal work in the field...