Humour

hugn An affectionate embrace What dictionary definitions fail to point out is that hugging feels good and that, among its many benefits, a hug can dispel loneliness, overcome fear, help...

What's so special about Dutch paintings of cheese? When does Art Nouveau become Art Deco? Why were the Pre-Raphaelites obsessed with gingers? Find out in one sentence with comedian and...

Most publishers keep a "slushpile" - the stack of unsolicited manuscripts which contains a large percentage of preposterous or frightening book proposals, which might just conceal that one jewel of...

Here are quotations with a kick--bizarre thoughts, obscure observations, and fiendishly funny reflections--to make you laugh, often in spite of yourself, at the human condition and the world at large....

From Ross Mathews, the nationally bestselling author of Man Up! , judge on RuPaul's Drag Race , and alum of Chelsea Lately , a collection of hilarious and irreverent essays...

The history books are full of heroes and villains ... but what about all the idiots? Comedian and armchair historian Mikey Robins tells the astonishing story of human stupidity, one...

We now know all about the world according to Clarkson. In a series of bestselling books Jeremy has revealed it to be a puzzling, frustrating place where all too often...

Natalie Cassidy has been on our screens for over three decades. We've grown up alongside Sonia on EastEnders , but what about Nat's life beyond Albert Square? 'Everyone knows and...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageWhat happens when taxation, bureaucracy, and human folly collide? In The Law and the Profits, the brilliantly sardonic...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerA masterpiece of eighteenth-century satirical fiction, The Spiritual Quixote: or The Summer's Ramble of Mr. Geoffry Wildgoose, A Comic Romance...

Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: Tanning and foxingAustralia's funniest man finally gets his due in The Best of Lennie Lower, a definitive anthology celebrating the...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageWhat happens when a fearsome Viking warrior can't even get back into his own home? Welcome to the...

Dogbert, the entrepreneurial friend of the cult cartoon character DILBERT, reveals the truth about office life and the dog-eat-dog world of business. Anyone who has ever toiled in an office...

Schott is back - and better than ever! From the mind that created the million-copy selling Schott's Original Miscellany comes Schott's Significa: an indispensable field guide to the hidden lore...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodBefore there was Babe Ruth's legend or Field of Dreams' romanticism, there was Jack Keefe — the swaggering, semi-literate rookie...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageLaughter, it turns out, has a remarkably long paper trail. The Oxford Dictionary of Humorous Quotations, edited by...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodBehind the pen name Carter Brown lived Alan Yates — one of the most prolific and commercially successful crime writers of the twentieth century —...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFor nearly a century, The New Yorker has served as the definitive arbiter of American wit, and The...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodWhat if the most revealing lens through which to view a nation's history was not the formal portrait, but the irreverent cartoon? The Other...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageWhat happens when a lovably dim, perpetually pillaging Viking meets the absurdities of everyday medieval life? Pure comic...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageStep into the absurd and anarchic kingdom of ID, where a pint-sized monarch rules with bumbling authority and...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageStep into the absurd and anarchic kingdom of Id, where a tiny, tyrannical king rules with an iron...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageA sharp wit slices through the political landscape of Australia in The Jungle Series, a definitive collection of...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageStep into the hilariously dysfunctional medieval kingdom of ID, where an incompetent king, a bumbling wizard, and a...

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Travelling by plane, motorbike and boat, and on foot, Billy Connolly tours the length and breadth of Australia with his stage show, and delivers a personal commentary on what he...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFrank Moorhouse, one of Australia's most shrewdly observational writers, turns his satirical lens on the absurdity of institutional...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerFrom one of the twentieth century's most celebrated wits and cultural critics comes a collection of essays that...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodWhat happens when a quintessentially British major attempts to decode the baffling mysteries of French life? In Major Thompson Goes French, Pierre Daninos returns...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: YellowedLaughter has always been Australia's most reliable currency, and Bill Wannan's The Great Australian Book of Humorous Quotes is its richest treasury. This delightful...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: YellowedPatrick Campbell — Ireland's most beloved humorist and one of television's most charmingly hesitant personalities — brings his signature wit and warmth to Fat...

Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodWhat happens when marriage meets the magnificent chaos of life abroad? Stay Married Abroad is Basil Boothroyd's wickedly witty survival...

Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodCondition remarks: dj - price clipped. What do you do after you've accidentally discovered the meaning of life, narrowly escaped the destruction...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageWhat happens when a wide-eyed innocent steps into the shark-infested waters of London's literary scene? The Improved Version...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn the grand tradition of satirical verse, Britannia Bright's Bewilderment in the Wilderness of Westminster presents...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodWhat do tenderfeet and ladyfingers have in common? They are just two of the countless colourful English words and phrases...