Humour

Hilarious collection of jokes, poems, lists, top tens and Christmas craziness, to make Christmas go with a bang!

Whilst flipping through issues of "The Girl's Own Paper" from the 1890s, it dawned on Philip Ardagh that he was witnessing tantalizing glimpses of a mystery story unfolding in the seemingly-unrelated illustrations. With these original illustrations and new text, he has created this new story.

Willy Cockhead had to live with his name.Uncovered by local author Paul Sullivan and accompanied with strange-but-true anecdotes, this entertaining volume of baffling, ill-thought-out and just plain rude examples champions the people and places of Oxfordshire that got saddled with the daftest of names.

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In 2007, Nicholas Lezard was kicked out of his home, for reasons we need not go into here. Since then he has been obliged to muster whatever scant internal resources he has - and to pay child support - while maintaining an entirely essential wine habit.

Wittgenstein said that if people never did silly things, nothing intelligent would ever happen. Why does Judeo-Christianity love mountains? Why was fear of drinking from skulls the original reason for cremation? This work gathers the bizarre and unknown facts that make our world tick.

Meet Bridget and Joan: Thelma and Louise on mobility scooters, reluctant residents of the Second Best Magnolia Retirement Home, and lifelong friends joined at the artificial hip.

What happens when you set it on fire, hang it from a clothesline, or put a llama underneath it? This title offers an exploration of an icon as familiar as a grinning jack-o-lantern or an arched black cat.

A hilarious look at the aging baby boomer generation from the author the Spectator labelled 'what happens when America does Grumpy Old Men'.

A compilation of amazing names of real people, with commentary and advice. Including chapters packed with stories and anecdotes about strange celebrity names, really long and meaningless names and even the weirdest names in sports, this book is for trivia lovers everywhere.

Features Prowler, Liberty, Neon, Indigo, Butch, Mr Muscles, Diva - all superpowered, all British gay superhero team. This title charts the highs and lows of a group of Brighton-based heroes, doing battle with 50 feet lesbians, a group of skilled pink ninjas, as well as their own insatiable urges.

Welcome to Downtrodden Abbey, where a battle for the deed to the property is waged between legitimate aristocrats and literal pretenders to the throne. The Crawfish family--Marry, Supple, Enid, Lady Flora, and Lord Roderick--are content wiling their days away with naughty charades and twenty-two course ...

Our best-ever selling cartoon paperbacks are back in print! We've taken our twenty fastest selling paperback cartoon books, given some of them new covers, and they're ready to sell for you all over again. Our cartoon paperbacks have sold over two million copies. A great gag gift, or an inexpensive add-on ...

Established in 1978 by the Diagram Group as an antidote to the tedium of the Frankfurt Book Fair, and now presided over by the Bookseller magazine, the Diagram is awarded annually to the most bizarre book title. Following the success of its prequel How to Avoid Huge Ships, Baboon Metaphysics proudly ...

Let's face it, at one time or another we've all had bad sex. But now New Yorker cartoonist Danny Shanahan (author of Innocent, Your Honor and I'm No Quack) reminds us, through a collection of witty and sinful drawings, that bad sex is definitely better than no sex. Shanahan's playful world of naughty ...

Collected by the writers of the BBC show, QI, and authors of the worldwide bestsellers The Book of General Ignorance and 1,227 QI Facts To Blow Your Socks Off, here is a hilarious and informative selection of the QI team's fun facts.

The first of its kind, A Twitter Year distills a year of conversation, argument, revelation and revolution into a 'review of the year' as written by the Twitter community