Secondhand Humour Books

Listen to the brand new dramatisation of How To Be a Woman, narrated by Caitlin herself, as part of BBC Radio 4's Riot Girls season Selected by Emma Watson for...

Thanks, Penneys is a love letter to an Irish institution, hilariously exploring our complicated relationship with the shop - from the chaos of the changing rooms to the questionable delights...

The world's most popular delinquent reveals all in the only tie-in book to the BIGGEST TV show of 1997! Written and illustrated by Matt Groening, the creator of The Simpsons,...

Did your home haircut make your child look like Friar Tuck?Did you forget to put bananas in your banana bread?Did your primary-schooler have to correct your times tables?Then you were...

'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...

Just when you thought it was safe to leave the house, there comes a brand new book to remind you that dangerous idiots still lurk everywhere. THE DARWIN AWARDS is...

Power struggles. Bitter rivalries. Rampant jealousy. Betrayals. Star-crossed lovers. When you think about it, it s pretty surprising William Shakespeare DIDN T write Mean Girls. But at last, readers will...

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...

The Private Eye Annual 2020 present the year's best cartoons, jokes, parodies and topical sketches from the UK's bestselling news and current affairs magazine. A perennial Christmas bestseller and the...

A follow up to Al Franken's worldwide bestseller LIES AND THE LYING LIARS WHO TELL THEM, this new book will expose the lies and deceptions of the politicians and the...

Moore has many hysterical things to say about deserving targets of all political persuasions from the anaemic left to the giddy right. Hailed as 'brilliant' and 'subversive' on both sides...

Our feline friends have spent eons observing, napping, pondering, napping and taking notes about the human condition. In between naps, they've realised that we humans could use some catlike guidance...

Mankind has always been fascinated by space - prehistoric man built temples to honour the moon and sun, early civilisations developed theories about what went on up there, and scientists...

Those endless afternoons where you struggled to remember the third person singular present indicative of volo (vult) may be a long time ago. But, if you have the vaguest memory...

The authors of the bestselling IS IT JUST ME OR IS EVERYTHING SHIT? survey the post-crash landscape. Are we better people now, or just the same people with less money?...

Many of us remember with pleasure Hilaire Belloc's humorous and piquant Cautionary Tales. Ever popular since publication in 1940, the moral poems were supposedly for children - but, with their...

'The iceberg always blinks at the last minute.' - @BorderIrish 'I was living the quiet life, watching the traffic and the sheep go by and then Brexit came along and...

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,...

Tomorrow's outmoded artefacts today. From the makers of "TV Go Home" comes a comic spoof of the consumer-product catalogues that arrive like an unwanted rash from newpapers and magazines. Modelled...

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...

Ahh, glorious school days... It's no wonder they went so quickly with all the exams, the classroom fun, the sticky situations to get out of, the work to avoid and...

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...

Seriously Senior Moments is the witty follow-up to the bestselling Senior Moments and More Senior Moments - not that you remember, of course. Entertaining and uplifting, this book is another...

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...

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,...

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...

If you hate: loft living; bar-clubs; Tony Blair; chick lit; global warming sceptics; Keane; loyalty cards; IKEA; Kabbalah; bling and Richard Curtis... ... then you need IS IT JUST ME...

Everyone is feeling miserable in the current economic decline. House prices are down, interest rates are the lowest ever and the country's growth shoots towards the negative like an amateur...

** THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP 5 BESTSELLER **** FEATURED ON BBC ARTS' BETWEEN THE COVERS **Award-winning comedian Sara Pascoe turns her attention to the things that really matter to humans...

The PERFECT GIFT for the ones who are yet to know the meaning of the words 'hard work' . . . in other words the back-to-schoolers and the university goers....

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...

Just how long do you plan on defying the laws of gravity?"Responding to overwhelming demand, the Cambridge Women's Pornography Cooperative has researched deeply into the desires of women of 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?...

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...