The Year of Reading Dangerously: How Fifty Great Books Saved My Life
A working father whose life no longer feels like his own discovers the transforming powers of great (and downright terrible) literature in this laugh-out-loud memoir.
Humour collections & anthologies
How to Be a Husband: Unabridged edition
The much-loved Guardian columnist asks what it takes to make a husband, and looks to his own married life to provide the answer.*
*Anything resembling advice should be taken at reader’s own risk.
How to Be a Husband
The much-loved Guardian columnist asks what it takes to make a husband, and looks to his own married life to provide the answer.*
*Anything resembling advice should be taken at reader’s own risk.
Be Awesome: Modern Life for Modern Ladies
Hadley Freeman, Guardian features writer and author of the popular ‘Ask Hadley…’ column, reminds the modern lady to ‘Be Awesome’.
Making Divorce Work: In 9 Easy Steps
An hilarious spoof self-help book from the star of Marion & Geoff and host of the hit BBC comedy The Keith Barret Show.
Mortification: Writers’ Stories of their Public Shame
A collection of stories from some of the world’s greatest writers about their own public humiliation.
Memories of Milligan
An arresting collection of interviews, collated by Norma Farnes, Spike Milligan’s close friend and longstanding agent, bringing to life the late, great Milligan in all his various guises.
The Lost Diaries
The Lost Diaries is a wide-ranging anthology of the world’s greatest diarists, each of them channelled onto paper through the considerable psychic force that is Craig Brown.
Happy Accidents: Unabridged edition
Best-known as Glee’s sharp-tongued Sue Sylvester, Jane Lynch’s on-screen persona is someone that many love to hate. But when she’s not prowling the corridors in Sue’s shiny tracksuit, who is the real Jane Lynch and how did this Golden Globe and Emmy winner learn to channel such delicious nastiness?
Happy Accidents
The hilarious and inspiring story of how Jane Lynch changed from a real-life Sue Sylvester to the happy and fulfilled actress she is today.
Making the Cat Laugh
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One woman’s journal of single life on the margins.
A brilliant collection of Lynne Truss’ journalism – recording the life of a metropolitan refugee from coupledom. The alternative ‘Bridget Jones’.
The Book of Dad
The Book that will forever define the essentially comic state of being, acting, looking, and sounding like a Dad.
You look awfully like the Queen: Wit and Wisdom from the House of Windsor
For fans of the ‘Windsors’ and ‘Now we are Sixty’: a beautifully illustrated collection of amusing and affectionate stories from inside the royal family.
You Cannot Be Serious!: The 101 Most Frustrating Things in Sport
This is a book for the sports lover.
Memories of Milligan
An arresting collection of interviews, collated by Norma Farnes, Spike Milligan’s close friend and longstanding agent, bringing to life the late, great Milligan in all his various guises.