Humour

  • The stinky Wonky Donkey

    £6.99

    In this gorgeous addition to the Wonky Donkey collection, Dinky Donkey tells us all about which animals she loves the best of all. And whether it’s a reindeer, a zebra, a horse or a camel, one thing’s for sure: our cute friend Dinky Donkey loves ALL creatures!

  • Everything to play for

    £14.99

    Hop, skip and jump into this wonderfully curious grand tour of the world of sports, brought to you by QI Elves James Harkin and Anna Ptaszynski. From sport’s weirdest rules to its most unlikely heroes, each chapter of ‘Everything to Play For’ is brimming with surprising facts and intriguing stories, including the psychology of football chants, comically large cricket bats, pole-vaulting priests and professional pillow-fighting.

  • Do let’s have another drink

    £10.99

    A Times Best Book on the Royal Family of the Year 2022

    This is a biography of the Queen Mother with all the dull bits stripped out.

    When told that Lady Mountbatten was being buried at sea, the Queen Mother replied cheerfully. ‘Dear old Edwina, she always did like to make a splash!’

  • The best of Matt 2023

    £8.99

    The last twelve months seen through the eyes of the brilliantly funny cartoonist Matt.

  • Unfit and proper persons

    £16.99

    Imagine setting up your own Sunday League football club and seeing it rise to the lofty heights of the Champions League, taking all the risky, rewarding, sometimes dodgy and increasingly big money decisions along the way. Comedian and financial idiot Kevin Day and football accountant and financial expert Kieran Maguire have imagined just that with all the humour and savage insight of their massively popular The Price of Football podcast. As (the made up) West Park Rovers rise through the divisions, towards the Premier League and Europe, Kevin and Kieran take readers on a rollercoaster ride through the often murky – and frequently bizarre – world of football finance.

  • Great minds on small things

    £12.99

    How to Be Perfect meets The Daily Stoic in this witty, entertaining, highly giftable compendium of quotidian wisdom

  • The Downing Street guide to party etiquette

    £9.99

    What first looked like yet another blunder in a long list of missteps for Boris Johnson now threatens to topple the government. While the rest of us were missing weddings and funerals, locked down and staying in for the good of others, No. 10 became the party central of the UK. Now, direct from the seat of power, comes this tongue-in-cheek party guide that will teach you everything from throwing a garden party to denying it ever happened.

  • The wheel is spinning but the hamster is dead

    £10.99

    Join wordsmith Adam Sharp as he journeys around the world in idioms, proverbs and general nonsense. Learn unusual insults from France (You are a potato with the face of a guinea pig), how to hurry someone up in the US (You’re going as slow as molasses in January) and what they call a shark in Vietnam (fat fish). Full of fascinating, ridiculous and hilarious translations from around the world, Adam has rounded up the very best of what every corner of the globe has to offer.

  • A night in the lonesome October

    £9.99

    Soon black magic will summon the Elder Gods back into our world and all manner of players are preparing for the Game. Some have come to open the gates. Some have come to slam them shut. 

  • Chunky

    £25.00

    This revised edition of ‘Chunky’ collects the very best of Victoria Wood’s sketches, shows and more, and is newly introduced by Celia Imrie, star of so many of Victoria Wood’s shows, with additions and annotations from Wood’s much-feted official biographer, Jasper Rees.

  • The decade in Tory

    £14.99
    • From @RussInCheshire, author of Twitter’s much-loved #TheWeekInTory, with 137k followers.
    • For fans of An Utterly Impartial History of Britain and An Utterly Exasperated History of Modern Britain by John O’Farrell, 52 Times Britain Was a Bellend by James Felton, How to be Right by James O’Brien and 100 Years of Annoying the French by Stephen Clarke.
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