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*THE NO.1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER*For the first time in seven years, Allie Brosh, the creator of the immensely popular blog 'Hyperbole and a Half' and #1 New York Times bestselling author, returns with her new collection. Solutions and Other Problems...

Have you ever...Got into a four-hour argument over what does and does not belong in a full English breakfast?Sat perfectly still in terrified silence until the unknown number stops ringing and goes away?Replied to the question 'Can I get you anything?...

This is not a book about how to be posh. We have some slightly bigger issues to deal with these days.We've all got a million things to do and are constantly connected to millions of other people all doing a million other things, so the faster we get...

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERWant to know the truth about what life is like as a mum and step-mum with a chaotic patchwork family?This book is everything I've been through that's made me who I am, plus the lessons I've learned from many mistakes. I hope...

Refreshes the parts other history books can't reach...A bit ropy on the Renaissance?In the dark about the Enlightenment?Or, in fact, do you need a revision course on the entire history of the world and want to read a witty, irreverent, definitely not...

THE FIRST COLLECTION FROM THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERS @DADSAYSJOKESFrom the most-followed dad jokes page on Instagram, @dadsaysjokes, comes a collection of hilariously cheesy jokes that will leave your friends and family laughing and groaning in equal...

George Mikes has written many successful books on a variety of interesting subjects, but one so successful as those on the subject most central to his own experience: his adopted country. The first of these came out in 1946: the ever famous "How to be an...

*** 365 JOY-FILLED TASKS TO MAKE LIFE MORE ENGAGING, FUN, CARING AND JOLLY! ***There are little things we can all do that can make a huge difference to our lives and to the lives of those around us. Doing something jolly every day that you can look back...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781101984697Author Nick OffermanFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint E P Dutton & Co IncPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 1gDimensions(mm) 1mm * 1mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780993077104Author James GilbraithFormat PaperbackPage Count 172Imprint Guild of ReasonPublisher Guild of Reason

Burt, the hound of Beelzebub, has risen from the dead, Gadget the miniature horse has moved into the kitchen and Tommy has decided to expand his beer business, and on the advice of his wife Rose, is thinking about distilling gin, what can possibly go...

"It was a million-to-one-shot, Doc". "My hands were full". "I fell". These and many other ludicrous excuses are what emergency room doctors hear every day from patients who check in with various objects inserted where the sun don't shine, stuck in...

Meet the world's most unusual monsters in this darkly funny collection of creatures and cryptids from folkloric history. Illustrator Emma SanCartier captures the bizarre and hilarious elements of 17 monsters from around the world in a light,...

Sometimes funny, sometimes serious, mostly absurd collection of poetry and essays from comedy superstar and creator of Netflix phenomenon Inside Bo Burnham.Bo Burnham was a teenager living in his parents' attic in Massachusetts when he started posting...

'Scalpel-sharp in observation, deceptively simple in construction... at its frequent bestYes Prime Minister exhibits the classical perfection of a Mozart sonata' - Richard Last in The Times'Its closely observed portrayal of what goes on in thecorridors...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781452167763Author Stephen WildishFormat HardbackPage Count 192Imprint Chronicle BooksPublisher Chronicle BooksWeight(grams) 363gDimensions(mm) 180mm *...

After a decade of making documentaries about offbeat characters on the fringes of US society, Louis had the urge to return to America and track down the people who most fascinated him. It would be a reunion tour, but this time without the cameras and the...

Hugh Bonneville is one of Britain's most accomplished actors, whose credits include Downton Abbey, W1A and the Paddington films. 'I don't remember when I last read a book that gave me so many laughs' Christina Patterson, Sunday Times'Tremendously...

Spike Milligan's letters contain some of the best material he ever wrote . . . Collected here for the first time are the funniest, rudest and most revealing of them - most of which have never been seen before - from one of the greatest comics of the...

From the bestselling author of 52 Things to Do While You Poo, this hilarious mix of fart-themed puzzles and trivia will blow your socks off! Roaring from the rear, belching from behind, tooting the trouser trumpet - whatever you call it, we all fart,...

'Funny, wise, learned and compulsive' - GQ Bill Bryson turns away from travelling the highways and byways of middle America, so hilariously depicted in his bestselling The Lost Continent, The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid and Notes from a Big...

In Mess, Keri Smith, creator of Wreck This Journal, asks readers to explore what it feels like to throw themselves off balance -- on purpose.Smith dares readers to drop some kind of coloured liquid (ink, tea, coffee) onto a page from a good height (at...

Newly married to novelist Rosie M. Banks, Bingo bucks the current trend by being extremely happy, although he does tend to lose his shirt on various horses. This collection of wonderfully funny stories features a cast of outrageous characters.About the...

Penguin Decades bring you the novels that helped shape modern Britain. When they were published, some were bestsellers, some were considered scandalous, and others were simply misunderstood. All represent their time and helped define their generation,...

**RICHARD & JUDY BOOK CLUB PICK****INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER****THE SUNDAY TIMES 'PICK OF THE MONTH'****WOMAN & HOME 'BOOK OF THE MONTH'****TOP TEN KINDLE BESTSELLER**'Edgy, thrilling, twisty - I loved it!' - LIANE MORIARTY'A world-class...

Ludicrous, heart-warming and improbably inspirational, Spanish Steps is the story of what happens when a rather silly man tries to walk all the way across a very large country, with a very large animal who doesn't really want to.Being larger than a cat,...

A candid and brilliantly funny memoir......of how a tall, shy youth from Weston-super-Mare went on to become a self-confessed comedy legend.En route, John Cleese describes his nerve-wracking first public appearance at St Peter's Preparatory School at the...

Would you Adam and Eve it? Over a hundred years after it was first heard on the streets of Ye Olde London Towne, Cockney rhyming slang is still going strong, and this book contains the most comprehensive and entertaining guide yet.Presented in an...

THE NEW COLLECTION FROM THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERS @DADSAYSJOKESQ: What do cars spread on their toast?A: Traffic jam.The hit Instagram page @DadSaysJokes returns with an all-new batch of hilarious dad jokes to share with friends and family. Back by...

How DO you avoid the 'nightmare scenario' of having two open tubs of margarine in your fridge? Throw one tub away, or give it to a friend or neighbour? If the remedy were that simple no one would have bothered to write a book about it, would they? John...

The cheque's in the post. I'm still at the office. That looks great on you. Lies make the world go round. And in this book the Would I Lie To You? team celebrates the fine art of the everyday fib.Like the deliriously funny contributions of Rob Brydon,...

What did the poo say to the fart? You blow me away! Full to the brim with obscene one-liners, gross-out gags and smutty shenanigans, this book should be your number one - and number two - choice for lav-based laughs.About the AuthorSid Finch lives in...

"I must die as I lived, beyond my means." Arguably the most quoted man in history, and certainly in his day, this enormous miniature collection is filled with Oscar Wildes' most notorious and witty sayings. Organized into five neat sections useful for...

Just what was so great about Peter, Catherine, Frederick and Alexander? What did Cleopatra see to admire in the fat man with a beard, Mark Anthony? Why do people suffer from Montezuma's revenge? This light-hearted romp through history sets off with the...

From the highly-acclaimed author of SMALL PLEASURES - winner of the 2022 British Book Awards Page-Turner____________________In 1976 four students took a trip to the desert. Now the repercussions of that fateful summer are coming back to haunt them... And...

'DEEPLY HONEST, SURPRISINGLY HILARIOUS AND UPLIFTING' The Pool 'HEART-WARMING: UNMISSABLE' Damian Barr, Metro Susan Calman is a much-loved comedian and writer who has appeared on countless radio and television programmes from The News Quiz and Just a...

A hilarious, colourful collection of straight-talking, no-nonsense advice from very sassy cats Favourite suggestions include: * Embrace "Procatstination": F*** it off and do it tomorrow ...

Waking in the middle of the night whilst on holiday, Tony Hawks declares an epiphany to his barely conscious partner Fran. Fed up of living in a city where the only contact with his neighbours in three years was a dispute over a boundary fence, his mind...

Congratulations! You're 60! You're halfway to being the oldest person who ever lived! But how much of the past 60 years can you remember?You've lived through the summer of love, the moon landings, Ronnie and Maggie, Den and Angie and the entire history...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781068620201Author Steve WilliamsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 260Imprint Steve WilliamsonPublisher Steve WilliamsonWeight(grams) 331gDimensions(mm) 216mm *...