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 This book is the perfect stocking filler for all ages.A right de-bollicking! I work in a veterinary clinic and I answered a phone call one day: Woman: `I need to have my dog's stitches out.' Me: `Okay, what did your dog have done?' Woman: `Oh,...

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...

Fredrik Backman / A Man Called Ove

 Perfect for fans of Gail Honeyman's Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine; Ruth Hogan's The Keeper of Lost Things and Graeme Simsion's The Rosie Project, A Man Called Ove is one of the best-loved and most life-affirming novels of the decade...

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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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...

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...

Gough, Julian - 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...

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...

Fanny Blake / House of Dreams

 Only a weekend in Spain - what could possibly go wrong? At their family hilltop villa, Lucy awaits the arrival of her brother and sister for their mother's annual birthday party. Although this time, their mother won't be there. Struggling at...

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...

Helen Fielding / Bridget Jones's Baby

 ** The funniest book of the year **** The new Bridget Jones novel **8.45 P.M. Realise there have been so many times in my life when have fantasised about going to a scan with Mark or Daniel: just not both at the same time.Before motherhood, before...

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...

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...

Daniel H. Wilson / How to Survive a Robot Uprising: Tips on Defending Yourself Against the Coming

How do you spot a robot mimicking a human? How do you recognise and then deactivate a rebel servant robot? How do you escape a murderous 'smart' house, or evade a swarm of marauding robotic flies? In this dryly hilarious survival guide, roboticist Daniel...

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...

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...

Rebecca Tyrrel / Days Like These: Scenes from an Ordinary Life

A collection of previously published pieces from the author's column in the "Sunday Telegraph" magazine. .They reveal what life is like living in a West London household and are populated with odd characters and themes drawn straight from...

Deirdre Sullivan / Improper Order

It's all most improper. Ciara has stopped eating her hair and is practically married to Syzmon. Even Ella has fallen for someone who is not a cat or a ferret. And Joel and Kevin are going for coffee after Mixed Martial Arts, but it isn't like a...

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

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 / 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 / Rhino What You Did Last Summer (Large Paperback)

Fame. Fortune. Screaming girls. The adoration of strangers. I've had it all before, yet nothing could have prepared this Horny Little Devil for his new life in the City of Angels. Sacked as the coach of the Andorra rugby team and on the run from the...

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 / 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...

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...

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,...

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

Ross O'Carroll-Kelly thought he had it all: Nice gaff, cool cor, plenty of dosh, a stake in Dublin's trendiest nightclub and a face that made boyfriends jealous. To say nothing of a beautiful wife and kids ... All that remained was for him to totally...

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...

Ross O'Carroll-Kelly / NAMA Mia!

It was no country for young men. Or women ...Unemployment, emigration and do-it-yourself hair colour kits were once again a fact of life. Taxes were on the up, the IMF were on the way and there was a cash for gold outlet in Foxrock Village.But the signs...

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...

Des MacHale / Bumper Book Of Kerryman Jokes

The Bumper Book of Kerryman Jokes is the biggest and best collection of Kerryman jokes ever published.It contains hundreds of jokes, riddles, one-liners,stories and inventions.Why do Kerry dogs have flat faces? From chasing parked cars.Have you heard...

Kevin Murphy / It's a Dad's Life

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