Humour

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...

Ross O'Carroll-Kelly / Game of Throw-ins (Large Paperback)

I was a rugby player with a great future behind me. A 35-year-old father-of-five with an expanding waistline, who was trying to survive the bloody battlefield we call everyday life. My son was locked in a violent turf war with a rival Love/Hate tour...

Ross Carroll / Ross O'Carroll-Kelly's Guide to South Dublin (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 wealth,...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Dave Eggers- 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...

Justin Halpern / Shit My Dad Says

At 28 years old, I found myself living at home, with my 73-year-old father. As a child, my father never minced words, and when I screwed up, he had a way of cutting right through the bullshit and pointing out exactly why I was being an idiot. When I...

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)

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Helen Bailey / Out of My Depth

Electra's totally out of her depth. Everyone's giving her the third degree! Freak Boy's dad wants to know whether he's being bullied. Sorrel's interrogating Electra about Lucy's private life. Even her dad is cross-examining her...

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 / Seedless in Seattle (Large Paperback)

Like the great Jesus Christ himself, I had a lot of shit on my mind when I hit 33...I had three new-born future Ireland internationals to feed, a daughter in need of psychiatric evaluation and a teenage son obsessed with uncovering the shameful secrets...

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...

Ross O'Carroll-Kelly / Keeping Up with the Kalashnikovs

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...

Olivia O'Leary / Party Animals

Continuing the theme of her well-received first volume of sketches, Politicians and Other Animals, Olivia O'Leary captures party animals of all colours, from frontbench lions and backbench lambs, to republican frogs and PD rottweilers. Opposition...

GaryShteyngart / Absurdistan

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Michael Moore / Adventures in a TV Nation

TV Nation" champions issues from the heavyweight to the irksome. Michael Moore has many hysterical things to say about deserving targets of all political persuasions from the anaemic left to the giddy right.All of our books are second hand, and...

Maureen Lipman / Thank You For Having Me

Maureen Lipman continues to examine the warp and weft of her own life's rich tapestry - including doing the weekly wash in a floor-length taffeta gown before going off to shake hands with HM The Queen. This is an humorous collection of reminiscence,...

Bill Bryson / At Home: A short history of private life

What does history really consists of? Centuries of people quietly going about their daily business - sleeping, eating, having sex, endeavouring to get comfortable.And where did all these normal activities take place? At home.This was the thought that...

Jon Butler / Do Bats Have Bollocks? and 101 more utterly stupid questions

The letters page of Old Git magazine continues to offer its readers an opportunity to ask and provide answers to the most pressing questions of our times. Questions such as:Would it help global warming if I left my fridge door open?What's the...

Oonagh O'Hagan / I Lick My Cheese And Other Notes... From the Frontline of Flatsharing

I needed that ham. Really needed it.' 'I pay the rent. What do you do?' 'I hate you more than life itself.'Flatsharing - it's not for the fainthearted. It doesn't matter how friendly and considerate everyone is to begin with,...

Mark Leyner / Why Do Men Have Nipples?

You know how it is... you're at a party, you've had a drink or two, and then someone introduces you to a friend. He's a doctor. And it seems like the perfect time to ask all those strange questions you've always wondered about, but never...

Michael Rosen / Centrally Heated Knickers

Hail! Hail!I come from anothergalaxy.Discover the wierd and wonderful world of martians, woolly saucepans and centrally heated knickers in 100 poems about science and technology from the delightfully irreverent, Michael Rosen, Children's Laureate...

Lynne Truss / Talk to the Hand

A battle-cry for civilised behaviour from the author of the multi-million selling Eats, Shoots and Leaves."Talk to the hand 'cause the face ain't listening," the saying goes. When did the world get to be so rude? When did society become...

John Lloyd / QI: Advanced Banter

Have you ever wondered why most books of quotations are stuffed full of rather pedestrian quotes by people you've never heard of?It's a shame because a really good quotation book, one which gathered the truest and funniest insights of the best...

Graeme Simsion / The Rosie Effect

Forty-one-year-old geneticist Don Tillman had never had a second date before he met Rosie.Now, living in New York City, they have survived ten months and ten days of marriage, even if Don has had to sacrifice standardized meals and embrace unscheduled...

Kevin Murphy / It's a Dad's Life

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Bill Hicks / Love All the People

Bill Hicks was arguably the most influential stand-up comedian of the last 30 years. He was funny, out of hand, impossible to ignore and genuinely disturbing. His work has inspired Michael Moore, Mark Thomas and Robert Newman among others. The trade...

John Lloyd / The Book of General Ignorance: A Quite Interesting Book

How much do we really know about anything? It’s a question which has obsessed philosophers, scientists, and men in pubs for most of human history. Thomas Edison thought we knew less than one millionth of one percent about anything; Mark Twain...

Bill Bryson / A Short History Of Nearly Everything

Bill Bryson describes himself as a reluctant traveller: but even when he stays safely in his own study at home, he can't contain his curiosity about the world around him. A Short History of Nearly Everything is his quest to find out everything that...

John Waters / Feckers: 50 People Who Fecked Up Ireland

Which 50 People turned Ireland into the fecked-up country she is today? Bono? Haughey? Louis Walsh? de Valera? It's time to name and shame the great, the good and the gobshites... Conventional wisdom has it that Ireland, after a violent and tragic...

Paul Kilduff / The Little Book of Mick

On airline security: 'We are not going to die at the hands of toiletries. 'On working at Ryanair: 'The only thing I will not do is fly the aircraft'. On his wedding guests: 'Who the fuck is Aunty fucking Mavis?'. On popularity:...

Dyan Sheldon / Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen

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Des MacHale / Wit

A collection of humorous quotations laid out in easy-to-read thematic sections, such as art, business and money, and drink and other drugs. This book features a wide range of people from Woody Allen and Oscar Wilde to Idi Amin and Frank Zappa.All of our...

Bill Bryson / Shakespeare

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Joe Taylor / Trials and Tribunalations

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Niamh Greene / Confessions of a Demented Housewife

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Ross O'Carroll-Kelly / South Dublin - How to get by on, like, 10,000 a day

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Louise Rennison / Stop in the Name of Pants

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Ross O'Carroll-Kelly / Should Have Got Off at Sydney Parade

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Camilla Morton / How to Walk in High Heels

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Ross O'Carroll-Kelly / Mr S and the Secrets of Andorras Box

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