Humour

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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

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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 / 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 / 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...

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...

Lauren McCrossan / Water Wings

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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...

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...

Gail Carson Levine / Ella Enchanted

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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...

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...

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...

Ross O'Carroll-Kelly / The Oh My God Delusion

The Oh My God Delusion is Ross O'Carrolly Kelly at his finest - and the publc agrees. It was voted Ireland's favourite book in Eason's 125th birthday poll and won the 2010 Irish Book Award for Popular Fiction. Ross thought the porty was going to last...

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...

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:...

P.J. O'Rourke / Modern Manners

A satirical guide to how to behave in today's complex world of shifting values and social uncertainties, by the author of Republican Party Reptile: The Confessions, Adventures, Essays (and Other) Outrages of P.J.O'Rourke.All of our books are...

Ricky Tomlinson / Football My Arse!: The Funniest Football Book You'll Ever Read

From one of Britain's best-loved actors and comedians comes this collection of hilarious anecdotes about football, with stories about the stars themselves, the fans, the girlfriends, the managers, every aspect of the beautiful—and occasionally...

Bill Bryson / Shakespeare

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Ricky Gervais / The World of Karl Pilkington

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Joe Taylor / Trials and Tribunalations

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Ross O'Carroll-Kelly / Ps, I Scored The Bridesmaids

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