Humour

Anyone who has met a cat knows how much they enjoy squeezing themselves into weird places and uncomfortable-looking positions. Will we ever know why? Probably not. Featuring over 100 photos...

'Hej! If you've been experiencing an inexplicable longing for rain, long dark nights, and an overwhelming urge to pull on a slightly itchy looking jumper then congratulations - You have...

Hugh Murphy's T-Rex Trying is a charming collection of 100 drawings from his wildly popular Tumblr feed of the same name. Though the T-Rex may struggle, you'll never struggle with...

A few months of married bliss, a lovers nest in Darrowby and the wonders of home cooking are rudely interrupted for James Herriot by the Second World War. James Herriot's...

James Herriot, strapped into the cockpit of a Tiger Moth trainer, feels rather out of place, but he hasn't found a new profession and it surely won't be long before...

The war is over, the RAF uniform has been handed in and James Herriot goes back where he ought to be - at work in the dales around Darrowby. Much...

From the author whose books inspired the BBC series All Creatures Great and Small, Let Sleeping Vets Lie is the third volume of James Herriot's classic memoirs; a book for...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodBehind the gilded facade of mid-century American prosperity lurks George Smith, a mysteriously wealthy recluse obsessed with building himself the grandest mausoleum the world has...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodA razor-sharp satirical romp through the corridors of broadcast power, White on the Media is a wickedly observed collection of cartoons and...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFew comedic figures in modern entertainment have achieved the mythic stature of John Cleese — a...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn Thurber Country, one of America's most beloved comic writers turns his...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: First Ed. Age tanning throughout, price clipped inside front dust jacket.Nancy Mitford's Don't Tell Alfred is a sparkling...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageAustralia's most irreverent cultural commentator strikes again in More Unspeakable Adams, a riotous collection of satirical essays that...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageStep into the gloriously chaotic world of William McGonagall — widely celebrated as the worst poet in the...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: YellowedWhat if the secret to getting ahead in life had nothing to do with talent, hard work, or merit —...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: YellowedWhat began as a satirical essay in The Economist became one of the most quoted and celebrated observations in the history of...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerIn the sunburned moral landscape of colonial and early Federation Australia, a peculiar breed of crusader rose to prominence —...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageOne of the most celebrated puzzle books ever written, Amusements in Mathematics is a landmark collection that transforms...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFrom the irrepressible comic genius behind The Goon Show comes a riotous collection of wit, anecdote, and absurdist...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFrom the gloriously unhinged mind of one of Britain's most beloved comic geniuses comes A Book of Bits...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFrom the beloved Welsh entertainer who made millions laugh as part of the legendary Goon Show, Goon for...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageBefore Monty Python, before alternative comedy, before British humour was exported to the world, there were The Goons...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageWhat happens when the full arsenal of literary criticism is unleashed upon a bear of very little brain?...

Readers of the Telegraph Letters Page will be fondly aware of the eclectic combination of learned wisdom, wistful nostalgia and robust good sense that characterise its correspondence. But what of...

'A very funny book that tackles some serious football issues.' Gary Lineker 'Witty and wise.' Clare Balding 'Brilliant. Blows the lid off football. Hilarious, detailed and insightful.' Alan Davies ---...

'Fast moving and frothing with the fun kind of female fury' JO BRAND WHEN THE ODDS ARE AGAINST YOU, IT'S TIME TO GET EVEN. Matilda, Jo, Penny and Cressy are...

A bunch of Aussies have spent the day at the beach. They wind up in one blokes backyard, where the barbie is firedup and loaded with grub steaks and veg...

Let the Sunday Times bestselling authors and hosts of Two Mr Ps in a Pod(cast) lead you through the school year... Does the phrase 'back to school' fill you with...

Ancient Greek lives on in our culture in surprising ways. Sometimes funny - the word for an actor, hupokrites, gives us 'hypocrite'; sometimes beautiful - an astronaut is literally a...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFew artists have captured the riotous, joyful absurdity of everyday British life quite like Beryl Cook, and Private...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFrom the beloved and brilliantly subversive pen of Michael Leunig comes Ramming the Shears, a characteristically anarchic collection...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodCondition remarks: Minor foxing front end page, age tanning throughout.Bounding across the sunbaked Australian outback with the energy of a summer dust storm, The...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: YellowedMarkings: Signed with inscriptionWhat happens when a life lived fully to the brim is committed to the page with wit, candour, and an irrepressible...

Edition: 16th pr.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerWhat happens when a hapless, pleasure-seeking young man stumbles into the brutally competitive world of 1950s British medical...

Edition: 6th ed.,2026100010786Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: GoodCondition remarks: faded boards.Aces Made Easy is a delightfully witty guide to the game of cards, co-authored...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodFrom the wickedly witty pen of one of Britain's most celebrated satirical draughtsmen comes a gloriously irreverent tribute to the...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: YellowedWhat happens when one of Britain's sharpest wits turns his eye to the entire sweep of architectural history? The result...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: Tanning and foxingFew characters have captured the larrikin spirit of Australian childhood quite like Ginger Meggs — the gap-toothed, red-haired street kid...

THIS IS NOT A PARENTING MANUAL. THIS IS REAL LIFE.The Unmumsy Mum writes candidly about motherhood like it really is- the messy, maddening, hilarious reality, how there is no 'one...

The night Dad had a few cheeky ones after work, forgot the milk and tripped over the rubbish, Mum called him A Wild Thing and left him to it for...

A hilarious guide to flatmates, in all their weirdness, told through the notes they leave for each other - the good, the bad and the highly antisocial 'I needed that...

If you've ever wondered what it would be like to have dinner with Franz Kafka, Jane Austen or Raymond Chandler, this is the chance to find out. Literary ventriloquist Mark...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxingBehind every pulpit lies a treasure trove of comedy, and Merriment of Parsons by Trevor Byard mines this rich seam with wit,...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingFew books capture the anarchic joy of music-making quite like The Hoffnung Music Festival, a riotous celebration of...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageBehind the barbed wire of one of history's most notorious prisoner-of-war camps, an unlikely spirit of...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageWhat does a man say when he writes a letter to himself? In Dear Me, the incomparable Sir...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn the bustling, wig-wearing world of the Old Bailey, Horace Rumpole — barrister, claret enthusiast, and devoted reader...

Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Slipcase: GoodPages: GoodFew writers of the Victorian and Edwardian eras captured the absurdity and warmth of everyday English life with quite the same charm as Jerome...