Humour

Leesa Harker / Fifty Shades of Red White and Blue

 Meet Maggie Muff, Belfast's newest and most loveable heroine. On a trip to the Bru she meets Mr Red White and Blue (Belfast's answer to Christian Grey). He may look like something out of the Kays catalogue and his arse in those chinos may be...

Matthew Parris / Scorn : The Wittiest and Wickedest Insults in Human History

 He's 100% political herpes. Back in six months whatever you do. Or three days, like last time.' Camilla Long on Nigel Farage'You're as ugly as a salad.' Bulgarian insult'I'm going to beat him so bad he'll need a shoehorn to put his hat on.'...

Andrew Stanley / I Dare Ya!

      All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a...

Louise Mortimer / Dear Lumpy : Letters to a Disobedient Daughter

   'Dearest Lumpy,I hope you are plump and well. Your mother bashed her car yesterday and chooses to believe it was not her fault...'Roger Mortimer's witty dressing-downs and affectionate advice were not only directed at his wayward son, Lupin...

Aubrey Malone / The Mammoth Book of Irish Humour

    This bumper collection of Irish humour covers topics such as Absenteeism and Zoos and everything in between. It would be disappointing should such a large collection not include the best of famous Irish wits such as Oscar Wilde and...

Brendan O'Reilly / In The Name of Jaysus! : Stuff That Drives Irish People Round the Feckin' Bend

   Ever lose the head when the country grinds to a halt after two centimetres of snow?Do the parish-pump politicians, perennially pathetic health services and practically useless road signs drive you to drink?Are all these and a million other...

Gerard Kelly / Overheard in Dublin Rides Again

   More Overheard in Dublin: another 500 quotes from the ever popular website...Taxi driver complaining about Taniste Mary Coughlan:'I didn't like her when she sung either!'___________I was on the Luas last August, and was standing next to...

Sarah Herman / Does Anything Eat Shit? and 101 Other Crap Questions and Answers

    Does anything eat shit? Have moles always lived in holes? Why are blondes so stupid? How much radiation can a pickled onion withstand? The world is full of really important questions. You will find none of them in this book. What you...

Overheard in Dublin Rides Again

 More Overheard in Dublin: another 500 quotes from the ever popular website...Taxi driver complaining about Taniste Mary Coughlan:'I didn't like her when she sung either!'___________I was on the Luas last August, and was standing next to these two...

Maeve Higgins / We Have a Good Time ... Don't We?

   In her hilarious debut, Maeve Higgins smashes the brittle veneer on the creme brulee of life and hands around spoons, so we can all taste the delicious absurdity that lies beneath. She then promises to stop making terrible food analogies...

Christian O'Connell / Radio Boy

 From leading breakfast radio star Christian O'Connell comes a brilliant and laugh-out-loud story of an ordinary boy with an extraordinary secret radio show. (Broadcast from his shed.)Meet Spike, aka Radio Boy: a new Adrian Mole on the radio for the...

Alexander Aciman / Twitterature : The World's Greatest Books Retold Through Twitter

 Everything from Beowulf to Bronte rewritten/ruined in twenty Tweets or less in Twitterature, the hilarious expression of every book-lovers' fear of the digital age, by Alexander Acima and Emmett Rensin.From Oedipus: PARTY IN THEBES!!! Nobody cares...

John B. Keane - Letters of an Irish Matchmaker - PB - Vintage Mercier

From the back cover: "These are the letters of a country matchmaker faithfully recorded by John B. Keane, whose knowledge of matchmaking is second to none. In these letters is revealed the unquenchable, insatiable longing that smolders unseen under the...

Des MacHale / Wit : The Last Laugh

   Des MacHale, joke collector and maths professor, trawls his net ever wide and deeper in the world's ocean of humour in this collection that follows other Wit... titles. It includes the best known wits, such as Oscar Wilde and Woody Allen,...

Spike Milligan / The Essential Spike Milligan (Hardback)

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T.C. Grey / Fifty Sheds Damper : A parody (Hardback)

 'Each firm stroke was bringing me closer and closer to that moment of relief and satisfaction. Soon my shed would be completely weatherproof.' Multi-millionaire Colin Grey thought he'd escaped a dark, forbidden world of pleasure and pain,...

Colm O'Regan / Isn't It Well For Ye?: The Book of Irish Mammies (Hardback)

 A BOOK if you don't mind! And him with a degree and a job and all.Everyone should have an Irish Mammy. She's never short of advice, a kind word and a cup of tea (making sure to scald the teapot first, of course).Bring the coat anyway. If it's too...

Sean McCann / The Wit of Oscar Wilde (Hardback)

 `I can resist everything except temptation' Oscar Wilde is probably the most quoted and quotable man in history. His genius manifested itself in his plays and poetry but he is equally famous for his penetrating wit, humour and brilliant...

Colm O'Regan / That's More Of It Now : The Second Book Of Irish Mammies (Hardback)

 Colm O'Regan's massive bestseller Isn't It Well For Ye? The Book of Irish Mammies brought the wonderful world of the Irish Mammy to homes across Ireland, where it took pride of place alongside the good scissors and the bit of string that might come...

Ross O'Carroll-Kelly / Operation Trumpsformation (Large Paperback)

 'Our nation's great satirist ... the most sustained feat of comic writing in Irish literature' Irish TimesIt's the end of the world as Ross knows it ... this time, there's no way of escaping another monumental fock-up!Sorcha had thrown me out of...

Julian Gough - Jude, Level 1 - SIGNED Hardcover 1st Edition 2007

A signed hardcover first edition, of Jude, by Julian Gough, and published by Old Street Publishing 2007.  This is the tale of Jude, a Tipperary-reared orphan, who on his 18th birthday, sets off to discover the wide world and his true parentage. If...

Ross O'Carroll-Kelly / Ross O'Carroll-Kelly's Guide to South Dublin : How to Get by on, Like, 10,000 Euro a Day (Large Paperback)

 The incomparable, irredeemable Ross O'Carroll-Kelly gives the ultimate low-down on the centre of the universe, South Dublin. Nestled in between the badlands of north and west Dublin, and the boglands of Wicklow, is a land of untold beauty and...

Lisa Owens / Not Working

 Now and again we all lie awake wondering what on earth we're doing with our lives . . . don't we? Claire Flannery has had more than a few sleepless nights lately. Maybe she shouldn't have walked out of her job with no idea what to do next...

Michael Frayn / Skios

 Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize'Good God, thought Oliver, as he saw the smile. She thinks I'm him! And all at once he knew it was so. He was Dr Norman Wilfred.'On the sunlit Greek island of Skios, the Fred Toppler Foundation's annual lecture is...

Linda Marsh / The Book of Limericks

 While no collection of limericks can claim to be 'complete', The Wordsworth Book of Limericks contains an astonishing collection of over 1,800 verses - all of them comical, and a great number so far from cleanliness as to verge on the obscene. This...

Lara Williamson / A Boy Called Hope

 Since his dad ran off with the lady from the chip shop, Dan Hope's life has gone a bit topsy-turvy. So Dan decides to sort out his messy, muddled, madcap family, starting with getting his dad back. But as one genius plan after another goes...

Scott Adams / Dilbert: the Joy of Work

 I cried because I did not have an office with a door, until I met a man who had no cubicle.' - Dilbert. Following on from his previous bestselling business books, The Dilbert Principle and The Dilbert Future, Scott Adams applies his acute wit to...

Richard Horne / 101 Things to Do Before You Die

   Have you ever Milked a Cow? Made the "Guinness Book of World Records"? Done the Monopoly Board pub crawl? Joined the Mile High Club? No? Then it's high time you reassessed your priorities. "101 Things To Do Before You Die" is the definitive...

Stephen Fry / Paperweight

 A hilarious collection of the many articles written by Stephen Fry for magazines, newspapers and radio. It includes selected wireless essays of Donald Trefusis, the ageing professor of philology brought to life in Fry's novel The Liar, and the best...

T. S. Easton / Boys Don't Knit

Meet Ben Fletcher, an Adrian Mole for a new generationBen Fletcher must get to grips with his more 'feminine' side following an unfortunate incident with a lollipop lady and a stolen bottle of Martini Rosso from Waitrose. All a big misunderstanding of...

Sean Hughes / Sean's Book

Moving throughout between the "serious" and the "funny", Sean Hughes satisfies his readers on two levels : he fulfills what is expected of him as a comedian while al so showing that he is more than just a gag-merchant. 'All of our books are second hand,...

John O'Farrell / Global Village Idiot

'This week the first pet passports came into effect. Around the country dogs have been hopping into photo booths and trying to look as relaxed as possible, which is not easy when you know you're not allowed on the chair.' Gathered here are the best of...

Colin Murphy / Stuff Irish People Love: The Definitive Guide to the Unique Passions of the Paddies

Do you love the taste of Red Lemonade, change into your swimming togs under a towel on the beach or find yourself admiring 'the grand stretch in the evenings'? Then this book, jammed with hilarious reflections on what it is to be Irish, will have you...

Christine Hamill / The Best Medicine

Philip is twelve years old and life is pretty good. He gets on with his mum and gets by pretty well at school - in spite of girl problems, teacher problems, bully problems and - er - poetry problems. Philip's happy-go-lucky life is disrupted when his...

John Cleese / So, Anyway... The Autobiography

Candid and brilliantly funny, this is the story of how a tall, shy youth from Weston-super-Mare went on to become a self-confessed legend. En route, John Cleese describes his nerve-racking first public appearance, at St Peter's Preparatory School at the...

Max Brooks / The Zombie Survival Guide: Complete Protection from the Living Dead

Drawing from reams of historical data, laboratory experiments, field research, and eyewitness accounts, this comprehensive and illustrated guide is the only book you'll need to face the greatest challenge mankind has ever encountered. Granted, you...

John Lloyd / Qi: the Book of General Ignorance - the Noticeably Stouter Edition

This is an indispensable compendium of popular misconceptions, misunderstandings and common mistakes culled from the hit BBC show, QI. From the bestselling authors of The Book of General Ignorance comes a noticeably stouter edition, with 26% extra facts...

Jon Ronson / Out of the Ordinary: True Tales of Everyday Craziness

Jon Ronson's subjects have included people who believe that goats can be killed by the power of a really hard stare, and people who believe that the world is ruled by twelve-foot lizard-men. In Out of the Ordinary, a collection of his journalism from the...

Catherine Wilkins / My Best Friend and Other Enemies

When Jessica's best friend goes off with new-girl Amelia, Jessica is hurt but determined not to take it lying down. She has a plan, and a secret weapon - her felt-tips. The pen is mightier than the sword, after all, and having a sense of humour wins...

Kim Izzo / The Fabulous Girl's Guide to Life

THE FABULOUS GIRL'S GUIDE TO LIFE is fully of witty, incisive and helpful advice for the thoroughly modern woman It covers many of the dilemmas and tricky situations a Fabulous Girl will encounter as she moves on to the next stage of her life, and will...

Eggers Dave - Created in Darkness by Troubled Americans - McSweeney's - HB First Edition 2004

John B. Keane - Celebrated Letters of John B Keane - HB Omnibus 1990 ( Letters of a Successful TD, Letters of an Irish Parish Priest, Letters of a a Love Hungry Farmer, Letters of a Matchmaker, Letters of an Irish Minister of State)

 A hardcover omnibus collection of 5 of the noted 'Celebrated Letters' series by John B Keane - published in this series by Irish Life in association with Wolfhound Press, 1990. These were previously published in paperback by the Mercier Press...

Bridget Hourican / The Bad Karma Diaries

Anna and Denise are always planning something, particularly when they need a bit of extra pocket money! They go into business as "The Party People", running birthday parties for younger kids in the area, and publicise it on their blog. As a...

Aleksandr Orlov / A Simples Life: The Life and Times of Aleksandr Orlov (Hardback)

All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a price sticker on a...

Ross O'Carroll-Kelly / Triggs: the Autobiography of Roy Keane's Dog (Large Paperback)

A loyal dog. Her infamous master. And the shocking truth about who was really walking whom. In a decade when Roy Keane was seldom out of the news - whether leading Manchester United to the Treble or telling Mick McCarthy to shove the World Cup up his...

Ross O'Carroll-Kelly / Downturn Abbey (Large Paperback)

Since inheriting a pile in Killiney, Ross O'Carroll-Kelly - schools rugby legend, lover of the ladeez and award-winning author - can add a new string to his not inconsiderable (you know what I mean) bow - lord of the manor. Downturn Abbey is the story of...

Ross O'Carroll-Kelly / Should Have Got Off at Sydney Parade (Large Paperback)

We don't think we can improve on the author's own summary of his book: So there I was roysh, in a state of basically very blissful ignorance, when suddenly Sorcha's up the Damien and I have to listen to, like, women's stuff. I am telling you, roysh, I...

Ross O'Carroll-Kelly / This Champagne Mojito is the Last Thing I Own (Large Paperback)

We don't think we can improve on the author's own summary of his book: I am many things, roysh -- unbelievable babe magnet, red-hot lover, loyal kind of goy, best forward who never played for Ireland -- but there's a few things I was basically sure I'd...

Ross O'Carroll-Kelly / The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nightdress (Large Paperback)

So there I was roysh, life focked, reputation focked, finances focked - everything completely focked, roysh, and we're talking big time. And it's all Fionn's fault, basically. He's the four-eyed focker who told me that, like, the first time you do it,...

Ross O'Carroll-Kelly / Keeping Up with the Kalashnikovs (Large Paperback)

My friend, Fionn, was being held hostage in, I don't know, Unganga Nanga, and the Government was refusing to send in a team of marines to extract him. Pack of focking cauliflower worriers...I wouldn't have minded being bound and gagged in a basement -...

Ross O'Carroll-Kelly / The Shelbourne Ultimatum (Large Paperback)

After his brush with death Ross O'Carroll-Kelly - schools rugby legend, award-winning author and lover of the ladeez - is back with a renewed lust for life - all thrillingly revealed in "The Shelbourne Ultimatum". Ross wakes up from his coma to find a...

Pat Shortt / I Will in Me Politics: The Maurice Hickey Diaries (Large Paperback)

It's rare that a political diary of such significance comes along. The O'Brien Press is proud to announce that Councillor Maurice Hickey has agreed to share his experiences in this informative and insightful account of his political exploits...