Secondhand Humour Books

Ireland, 2025: where a mortgage is required just to buy a coffee. With rents soaring higher than the price of a pint in Temple Bar and the government still trying...

Public speaking can be terrifying. For David Nihill, the idea of standing in front of an audience was scarier than cliff jumping into a thorny pit of spiders and mothers-in-law....

Brace yourself, Clarkson's back. And he'd like to tell you what he thinks about some of the most awe-inspiring, earth-shatteringly fast and jaw-droppingly gorgeous cars in the world (alongside a...

What if there's a hidden dimension to Donald Trump; a sensitive, poetic side? Driven by this question, Rob Sears began combing Trump's words for signs of poetry.What he found was...

'I stared in horror - it was a dark, evil green colour with big scales. I hadn't seen a bathroom like this since 1973.' From the creators of Sunday Timesbestseller...

There are many ways civilisation could end, even with wise, benevolent leaders like Kim Jong-un, Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin watching over us. Now, in this fun interactive story of...

The lizards are alarmed. The snakes are scared. The antelopes are apoplectic. Why? The meerkats have turned mean. Sure, they look cute with their little noses in the air. And...

Fizzing with the one-liners and surreal humour for which Milton Jones is famous, this is an authentic, hilarious story of the life of a stand-up comedian . A star of...

Ever wondered if a seven-year-old can bench press double his own bodyweight? Or who holds the record for the biggest enhanced breasts? Mark Dolan knows - he's actually met these...

Everyone tensed and leaned forward, wondering who this new arrival could be. A stripper? Surely not. A music act? Please no.'From the author of Number One Christmas bestseller, Five on...

The Vacant Casualty is not prepared, authorized, licensed, approved, or endorsed by the author or the publishers of The Casual Vacancy. Nothing ever seems to happen in the sleepy English...

'At 28 years old, I found myself living at home, with my 73-year-old father. As a child, my father never minced words, and when I screwed up, he had a...

Parents of the world rejoice! Our bestselling How to Traumatize Your Children has been revamped with all-new totally dysfunctional illustrations. This groundbreaking instructional volume teaches you how to give your...

'Hurt me!' she begged, raising her skirt as she bent over the workbench. 'Very well,' I replied, 'You've got fat ankles and no dress sense.' Colin Grey's life was happy...

Whether his subject is Islam, goats, Kate Moss, a missing sock, Daktari or duff English, his prose is laser-sharp, clear as sunlight andmirrepressibly funny. Down Boy is Joe's ninth collection...

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,...

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...

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....

Back in the day, if you wanted to raise money you stood on street corner with a tin and a smile. That is until Mr John Cleese rounded up a...

Have you ever called someone 'fluffle bunny'? Have you ever sent a text saying 'it's not you, it's me'? Have you ever written a dirty limerick in a Valentine's card?...

It's a grim fact that the world isn't as nice as it used to be. People are ruder, more greedy, more selfish and more violent. And even though those hardback...

What can the rise and reign of this century's most feared politician teach us about life, work and love? Rob Sears shows how the machinations that enabled Putin to dominate...

Whether you are single, married, or simply Fry-curious, Mrs Stephen Fry, the world's almost leading relationship expert, leads you gently but firmly though the marital process from proposal to divorce,...

Sometimes childish, sometimes rude, always clever and always very, very funny this book has delighted most, and outraged a few, Tolkien fans in the US for nearly 30 years. Pulling...

The latest offering in the Tiny series of Joke books. Perfect for Monday morning blues, as well as lightening the atmosphere at the office. These are quick-fire jokes packaged in...

Showing the same incisive and outrageous wit as in his previous books, where he first took on the self-help craze then New Labour's addiction to spin, Alistair Beaton now tackles...

This Christmas you can finally let your bunnies out of their padded hutches, because Andy Riley doesn't want them anymore. He wants your children!From the creator of the bestselling Bunny...

Dumpty: The Age of Trump in Verse is Volume 1 of a satirical poetry collection from award-winning actor and bestselling author John Lithgow. Chronicling the last few raucous years in...

Have you ever wondered just what it is that other people get up to in bed, or why it is that some people are kinkier than others? Well, worry no...

Household name Derek Davis presents here a collection of his popular RTE radio broadcasts.Never complacent and always questioning, they describe a changing society and its changing concerns: the treatment of...

While wide awake in the middle of the night (welcome to menopause!), Amy Ferris began chronicling every one of her funny, sad, hysterical, down and dirty, and raw to the...

You may now expect a dirty weekend to involve nothing more exciting than cleaning out the garden shed, and you may find yourself being snubbed even by high-street canvassers.On the...

From the creator of the hit BBC TV Show TV NATION, the most popular documentary of all time, Emmy Award-winning ROGER AND ME, and the stupendously successful STUPID WHITE MEN,...

Luis Palau did everything he knew he should do to live the Christian life. He spent hours in prayer and Bible study. He participated in every Church event and even...

''Never eat healthy food. We so need all the preservatives we can get"The hilarious Spring Chicken greeting card range has brought wry smiles to the faces of millions. Older, Wiser,...

Jeremy Clarkson finds the world a perplexing place. So much so, in fact, that he wrote a book about it. But despite the appearance of the bestselling The World According...