Humour

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerStop Laughing, This Is Serious! is a wickedly entertaining journey through Australian history, told not through dry textbooks or dusty archives, but...

Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Slipcase: WornPages: GoodBefore there was a Victorian novel in the truest sense, there was The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club — Charles Dickens's uproarious debut...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodStep into the muddy, boisterous, and gloriously chaotic world of international rugby with Mike Burton's Have Balls Will Travel, a riotous first-hand chronicle of life on...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageBehind the grim machinery of war lies a world of larrikin spirit, dark wit, and irreverent camaraderie —...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFrom the pioneering days of the Wright Brothers to the jet age of mass aviation, Punch in the...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodFrom tall tales told around the campfire to biting political satire, The Illustrated Treasury of Australian Humour presents the full, raucous spectrum of a...

From viral meme to one of the year's most exciting new YouTube series, Idiot Sandwich is the ultimate cookbook dedicated to that special heaven served up between two slices of...

Having made the U.S. financial crisis comprehensible for us all in The Big Short, Michael Lewis realised that he hadn't begun to get grips with the full story. How exactly...

'FASCINATING' Daily Mail 'FULL OF AMAZING FACTS' The QI Elves Each of the United Kingdom's 124 postcode areas has a story to tell, an unexpected nugget to dust off and...

Although rap music is famous for its ingenuity, double entendres and clever turns of phrase, until now no one has attempted to collect rap lyrics into an organised compendium. Enter...

A Waterstones Best Book of 2024 'Marriage to Mike Leigh, the minutiae of working on Gavin and Stacey : it's a tribute to her range that there's something here to...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodOne of literature's most endearing and unlikely masterpieces, The Young Visiters is the remarkable story of the socially ambitious Alfred Salteena —...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodWith a razor-sharp wit and an unflinching eye, Mordecai Richler — one of Canada's most celebrated and provocative literary voices — presents a sweeping...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Note: DJ repaired with tapes. Bold, irreverent, and bracingly unconventional, A Low Breed by Joseph Johnson is a...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodSome gaffes are too good to forget — and I Could Have Kicked Myself is a glorious monument to the most spectacular blunders, miscalculations, and...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodWhat happens when a freshly minted Oxford-trained anthropologist is dropped into the remote hills of Cameroon with little more than a notebook, good intentions, and...

Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn the grand tradition of British political satire, The Other Half: Further Letters of Denis Thatcher presents...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: Tanning and foxingFrom one of the twentieth century's most brilliantly versatile minds comes Add a Dash of...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerFew novels have launched a literary career with such explosive joy as Charles Dickens's first, The Pickwick Papers — a...

Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: GoodFrom the pen of America's most beloved humorist comes a riotous collection that launched a literary legend —...

Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodLanguage has never been so delightfully mischievous as in Willard R. Espy's The Game of Words, a witty and wide-ranging celebration of the English...

Condition remarks:Book: AcceptableJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: FEP missingMarkings: Ex-library with usual markingsIn the glittering yet hollow world of 1920s London, Evelyn Waugh's Vile Bodies chronicles the frenetic misadventures...

Condition remarks:Book: AcceptableJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Ex-library with usual markingsSet against the backdrop of a fictional African empire teetering on the edge of modernity, Black Mischief is...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFrom the rain-drenched jungles of West Africa to the sun-baked plains of South America, Encounters with Animals presents...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodWhat happens when Britain's wittiest, most opinionated, and most delightfully eccentric minds put pen to paper? The Second Cuckoo answers that question with irresistible...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerIn the grand tradition of Australian bush poetry, How M'Dougall Topped the Score is a rollicking, comic masterpiece that immortalises a hilariously chaotic...

Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodFrom the sun-scorched bush tracks to the rowdy pubs of colonial Australia, Henry Lawson's gift for comic storytelling captures the larrikin spirit of a...

Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodWhat happens when a scholar with a razor-sharp wit decides to throw decorum out the window and drag the entire canon of English literature...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn the sunlit corridors of a Soviet schoolroom, a cunning student discovers that wit and audacity can be...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageNorman Lindsay's The Cousin from Fiji is a sparkling comic novel set in the boisterous world...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: Tanning and foxingIn the irresistibly comic world of the fictional French village of Clochemerle, Gabriel Chevallier returns with Clochemerle-les-Bains, a satirical romp...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: Signed with inscriptionCondition remarks: Good condition, usual aging for a book of this era. What happens when the ivory tower collides with the...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodWhat would you do if you were lost in a jungle, stranded on a desert island, or caught in a blizzard with nothing but your wits...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingFew memoirs announce their own fallibility so gleefully — and so honestly — as Clive James's riotous account...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxingFew figures in twentieth-century British intellectual life command the breadth of achievement that Victor, 3rd Baron Rothschild, brought to bear on his...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: Tanning and foxingCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageWhat happens when the men who master the skies come down to earth with a laugh?...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageWhat happens when ordinary life collides with the towering myth of modern success? What About Bill...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxingFrom the pen of one of Britain's most beloved comic writers comes Merely Melville, a sparkling collection of witty observations, comic sketches,...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: YellowedA titan of British wit, law, and letters finally turns the lens on himself — the result is a memoir...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingBritain has always harboured a magnificent gallery of gloriously peculiar souls, and Edith Sitwell's The English Eccentrics chronicles...

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Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageMeet Rappaport — a gloriously hapless, larger-than-life comic creation whose insatiable appetites, bumbling schemes, and spectacular misfortunes make...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: Tanning and foxingCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageWith the warmth of a summer afternoon and the gentle absurdity of rural life, Oh! To...

Edition: First ed.Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: Tanning and foxingA wit as sharp as a sub-editor's pencil and an eye for the absurdities of everyday Australian life...