Humour & Comedy

Rob Sears / Vladimir Putin: Life Coach (Hardback)

 What can the rise and reign of this century's most feared politician teach us about life, work and love? Rob Sears shows how the machinations that enabled Putin to dominate the Kremlin and undermine the United States of America could also help you...

Emma Kennedy / The Killing Handbook (Hardback)

 Emma Kennedy tells you everything you ever wanted to know about THE KILLING - and more.Hej! If you've been experiencing an inexplicable longing for rain, long dark nights, and an overwhelming urge to pull on a slightly itchy looking jumper then...

Colin Murphy / The Feckin' Book of Irish Sex and Love that's not fit for dacent people's eyes (Hardback)

  There's been a rule of thumb in Ireland the last thousand years - if it's something you enjoy, it's a sin. And if it's anything to do with SEX, it's a mortal sin. Here, in one uncensored package, is everything you've ever wanted to know about...

Tommy Tiernan / Winging It (Hardback)

 'A great read' Brendan O'Connor, RTEIn nearly three decades as a performer, Tommy Tiernan has never wanted to play it safe. So, when it came to doing a chat show, he threw out the rule book: going in blind, not knowing who would turn up.It could be...

John Tierney / The Best Case Scenario Handbook

  THE BEST CASE SCENARIO HANDBOOK shows readers how to cope with sudden wealth, power, love, success and earthly glory. In scenario after scenario, it's what to do when life takes a turn for the lucky. When for example, your car is bumped by...

Ronan Casey / Medium Sized Town, Fairly Big Story (Hardback)

 Medium-Sized Town, Fairly Big Story is a window on the real soul of Ireland, a snapshot of the way we were, the way we are and, hopefully, the way we'll always be.For anyone with a sense of humour and a taste for the absurd, here are the best of...

Helen ORahilly / The Stairlift Ascends : Tweets from a Covid Cocoon

 Aunt: *calling loudly from sitting room* Helen, can you help me?Me: *drops everything, rushes to front room, expecting her to have fallen*Aunt: The cat's on my lap, could you pour me a small Jameson?Cocooning with my ninety-year-old Aunt is not the...

Peter Cosgrove / Family Fun Unplugged (Large Paperback)

  AN ACTIVITY BOOK THAT THE WHOLE FAMILY CAN ENJOY Looking for a way to spend some quality time with the kids? Family Fun Unplugged is packed full of exciting activities that will provide hours of fun. Whether it's over dinner or a rainy Saturday...

Billy Connolly / Tall Tales and Wee Stories

 THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'Connolly's raucous run through his life is as furious, funny and foul-mouthed as you'd expect' Sunday TimesIn December 2018, after fifty years of belly-laughs, energy and outrage, Billy Connolly announced his retirement...

Stephen Pile / The Not Terribly Good Book of Heroic Failures

 All successful people are the same (you know, drive, will to win, determination) - it's just too dull to contemplate. But everyone who messes up big time does so in a way that is completely individual.Step forward the fifty Mexican convicts who dug...

Geoff Tibballs / I Wish I Hadn't Said That

 Ever since Mrs Malaprop first took to the stage in 1775 and described a gentleman as 'the very pineapple of politeness', some famous figures have become better known for their slips of the tongue than for anything they said intentionally. In...

Colin Murphy / Now That's What I Call A Big Feckin' Irish Book (Hardback)

 Do you know your "Doss Artists" from your "Doxies?" Want to give someone a piece of your mind with a wicked insult like, "You're as useful as an ashtray in a force-10 gale?"Find all that and more in this riotous, fascinating guide to Irish culture...

Rory OConnor / The Rory's Stories Guide to Being Irish (Hardback)

  From weddings and wakes to hangovers, pre-marriage courses, working as an apprentice on a building site, Irish summers, the Irish abroad, smart-arse barmen, more hangovers, aspiring TDs, the GAA lotto man, going on the hop from school and Irish...

Wendy Roby / Universally Challenged

  There's nothing quite like a quick fire question, the pressure of a countdown, or the expectant stare of Jeremy Paxman for making even the most intelligent quiz show contestants (as well as the not so clever) come out with the most unbelievably...

Chris Findlater / Scottish Jokes

      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...

Mike Haskins / Wrinklies Joke Book (Hardback)

 This sparkling collection of golden age wit and wisdom is proof-positive that the stereotypes of knitting grannies and doddering granddads just aren't true anymore - if, indeed, they ever were. Senior citizens are not going gentle into that good...

Frankie J. Jones / Make a Memory #Family Christmas : 46 photo cards for your festive family moments

 Add some holiday cheer to your Christmas celebrations with these festive photo cards and games.Snap some 'elfies and pose for pictures with the captioned photo cards and create some new hilarious Christmas traditions.Cards include 'I've been...

Frankie J. Jones / Make a Memory #Christmas Party : 46 photo cards for those epic Christmas party moments

 Brighten your Christmas party with these fun Christmas Party photo cards. Snap some Christmas 'elfies and pose for pictures with the captioned photo cards to create some hilarious Christmas party moments.Perfect for office Christmas parties, and...

Gemma Elwin Harris / Does My Goldfish Know Who I Am?

 Why do zebras have stripes? Why do we close our eyes when we sneeze? Why are farts flammable? Why do we have recessions when we can just print more money?If you've ever been flummoxed by a child's questions, Does My Goldfish Know Who I Am? is the...

Ellie Kemper / My Squirrel Days (Large Paperback)

 Comedian and star of The Office and Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt Ellie Kemper delivers a hilarious and uplifting collection of essays about one pale woman's journey from Midwestern naif to Hollywood semi-celebrity to outrageously reasonable New Yorker...

No Such Thing As A Fish / The Book of the Year 2018 (Hardback)

 __________'My favourite geeks. Hilarious. Sideways. Brilliant.' Tim MinchinIn a year dominated by Russian collusion and Brexit confusion, The Book of the Year returns with another dose of barely believable yet wholly unimpeachable facts and stories...

Rob Temple / Very British Problems (Hardback)

  There's an epidemic sweeping the nation Symptoms include: *Acute embarrassment at the mere notion of 'making a fuss' *Extreme awkwardness when faced with any social greeting beyond a brisk handshake *An unhealthy preoccupation with meteorology...

Brian OConnell / The Personals (Hardback)

 The Personals reveals how classified ads are not just a few commercial lines of text in print or online - they can be a treasure trove of fascinating human stories; stories of love, loss, loneliness, redemption and hope.Some people do Sudoku,...

Johnny McMahon / Dear Johnnies (Hardback)

 Based on the hugely successful podcast and tour, in Dear Johnnies the popular duo solve all your life's problems. From finding the perfect date on your agricultural science course to surviving a move to Dublin, Johnny B and Johnny Smacks are here...

Aoife Dooley / How to Deal with Poxes (Hardback)

   With her second book comedienne and illustrator Aoife Dooley is on a mission. There's been a growing epidemic of poxes and buzz-wreckers everywhere and something needs to be done.What's a pox? Oh, you know them. The man on public transport...

Dawn French / Me. You. Not a Diary

 'A mellow, gentle read with a lot of words of wisdom' IndependentLet Dawn French guide you through the year with her witty and wise seasonal insights.__________Me You: Not A Diary is a pocket diary without the diary part. Or the pocket.It includes...

Paul Kilduff / Ruinairski (Large Paperback)

      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...

Ewan Phillips / Mock the Week : Scenes We'd Like to See (Hardback)

Scenes We'd Like to See is the very first Mock the Week book, published to coincide with the sixth series of the hit BBC2 comedy show. From gloriously rude `Unfortunate names for race horses' to `Unlikely personal ads' and lines that (sadly) never...

Dara O Briain / Tickling the English (Large Paperback)

 Nostalgia, identity, eccentricity, gin drinking and occasional violence... these are just some of the themes that stand-up comedian Dara O Briain explores in Tickling the English.O Briain moved to England many years ago, but when he takes his show...

Tina Fey / Bossypants (Large Paperback)

  Once in a generation a woman comes along who changes everything. Tina Fey is not that woman, but she met that woman once and acted weird around her. Before 30 Rock, Mean Girls and 'Sarah Palin', Tina Fey was just a young girl with a dream: a...

Mitchel Symons / Why Girls Can't Throw (Hardback)

 "Why Girls Can't Throw" provides the answers to the everyday mysteries which keep you up at night...It addresses questions such as: is it morally wrong to record a CD you buy for a friend's birthday before you give it to them? Why do smokers often...

Scarlett Moffatt / Scarlett Says

 Queen of the SofaQueen of the JungleQueen of the one-linerThe Sunday Times Number 1 Bestseller'Scarlett Says is absolutely brilliant and really funny. Half autobiography, half mad woman on a roundabout shouting at the traffic.' - Alan Carr'My...

Alfie Deyes / The Pointless Book (Large Paperback)

  Bake a cake in a mug; take part in a people-watching challenge; create a time capsule; diarise a week of your life and learn to make origami. Fully illustrated and packed with a host of games, activities and pranks, Alfie invites you to join...

Wendy Northcutt / The Darwin Awards III

  Just when you thought it was safe to leave the house...brand new DARWIN AWARDS, the bestselling humour series that honours those people who improve the human gene pool by inadvertently removing themselves from it in sublimely idiotic ways. The...

Colin Murphy / The Book of Feckin' Irish Trivia

 More trivia about Ireland than you ever needed to know!Distract yourself from doom-and-gloom with useless information: guaranteed to make you a hit at parties or gatherings of more than one person!This book contains jewels like the following:During...

Jen Campbell / Weird Things Customers Say in Bookshops (Hardback)

 'Can books conduct electricity?''My children are just climbing your bookshelves: that's ok... isn't it?'A John Cleese Twitter question ['What is your pet peeve?'], first sparked the "Weird Things Customers Say in Bookshops" blog, which grew over...

John Lloyd / 1,339 QI Facts To Make Your Jaw Drop (Hardback)

 'I love these books ... the best books ever. Brilliant' Chris Evans1,399 QI Facts To Make Your Jaw Drop by John Lloyd, John Mitchinson and James Harkin is packed with even more fascinating facts.Whilst you're bending over to grab your socks...

Harry Hill / Livin' the Dreem (Large Paperback)

  Harry Hill's unexpurgated diary of his year promises to do for the celebrity memoir what the Hadron Collider has done for particle acceleration. Think Samuel Pepys meets Katie Price. This frank and sometimes controversial diary details one...

Scarlett Moffatt / Scarlett Says (Hardback)

 The Sunday Times Number 1 Bestseller from the Queen of the Jungle, Scarlett Moffatt"I don't go on red carpets. If a photographer ever shouted out "who are you wearing?" I'd be like, "Me mam's top, me mate Sarah's jeans and some shoes from the...

Brendan O'Carroll / Mrs Brown's Family Handbook

 Uncover hilarious and unique insights into the Brown family, in Brendan O'Carroll's first official book on his NTA winning comic creation Mrs Brown's Boys.Millions od us have wondered: how does Agnes Brown do it? Keeping her end up while seven...

David Pickering / Penguin Pocket Jokes

  Have you heard the one about the man who walked into a bar? (Ouch!)... Penguin Pocket Jokes is essential (and hilarious) reading for anyone searching for the perfect joke. Whether you want a snappy wisecrack or a longer rib-tickler when making...

Donal Foley - Man Bites Dog - Book 8 ( 1979) PB - Satire & Humour

Bases on the satirical colums from the Irish Times newspaper, this is the 1979 issue of the hugely popular Man Bites Dog Series ( the title refers to the old journalistic maxim that' dog bites man' is not news , but 'man bites dog' is .  Paperback...

Stephen Bayley / Dictionary of Idiocy : An Utterly Quirky Guide to General Ignorance

  Wittgenstein said that if people never did silly things, nothing intelligent would ever happen. In this compelling A-Z of modern ignorance, Stephen Bayley gathers silly, curious and sometimes shocking facts on everything that makes our world...

Ambrose Bierce / The Devil's Dictionary (Hardback)

  A word book, straight up, with a twist The Devil's Dictionary is an American classic. A Yankee Oscar Wilde with a wicked edge to his tongue, gained from seeing the world early and cynically as it really was, Ambrose Bierce, friend and rival of...

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

  '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, something always...

Rob Temple / Very British Problems : Making Life Awkward for Ourselves, One Rainy Day at a Time

 There's an epidemic sweeping the nationSymptoms include:*Acute embarrassment at the mere notion of 'making a fuss'*Extreme awkwardness when faced with any social greeting beyond a brisk handshake*An unhealthy preoccupation with meteorologyDoctors...

Harry Oliver / March Hares and Monkeys' Uncles (Hardback)

  From the publishers of the Number 1 bestseller Red Herrings and White Elephants Why is a March hare mad? Why do we sometimes call ourselves a monkey's uncle? Why do cricketers who don't score anything get out for a duck? Who was Gordon Bennett?...

Charlie Brooker / The Hell of it All (Hardback)

 'Mankind clearly peaked about 40 years ago. It's been downhill ever since. For all this talk of our dazzling modern age, the two biggest advances of the past decade are Wi-Fi and Nando's. That's the best we can do.'In his latest laugh-out-loud...

David Mitchell / Thinking About It Only Makes It Worse And Other Lessons from Modern Life (Hardback)

 What's wrong with calling a burglar brave? Why are people so f***ing hung up about swearing? Why do the asterisks in that sentence make it okay? Why do so many people want to stop other people doing things, and how can they be stopped from stopping...

Jack Dee / Thanks For Nothing (Hardback)

 For the first time, comedian Jack Dee reveals the highs and lows of his early life and disastrous day jobs. You don't just wake up jaundiced and bitter; it's taken Jack years of dedication and commitment to brew his unique cocktail of...

Frank McNally / The Xenophobe's Guide to the Irish

 "The couth truth""A popular perception of the Irish is that they're all fiery, freckle-faced red-heads who'll start a fight at the slightest offence (e.g., being called British). The bit about the freckles is accurate enough, but the typical Irish...

Terry Wogan / Something for the Weekend : The Collected Columns of Sir Terry Wogan

 A collection of Terry Wogan's best TELEGRAPH columns, with his trademark wry take on life. 'It's my feeling that whatever's bothering you, you ought to be able to say it in less than 500 words. The rest is window-dressing ... Probably explains why...