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Dilbert A Treasury of Sunday Strips by Adams, Scott
£1.79

Learn all the latest in inept management techniques, moronic mission statements and the best way to avoid meetings from Dilbert and his merry mates. Find out why common sense never prevails, why a sense of humour is essential and why the only reason your company sells any of its products at all is because there are so many idiots out there.... Read More information

The Not So Very Nice Goings On At Victoria Lodge by Ardagh, Philip
£1.49

First Edition. Hardcover with dust jacket, some blue lines to back cover. Whilst flipping through issues of The Girl's Own Paper from the 1890s, it gradually dawned on Philip Ardagh that he was witnessing tantalising glimpses of a mystery story unfolding in the seemingly-unrelated illustrations. Using these originals and his brand-spanking-new text, he's created the quite extraordinary (and very... Read More information

Gentlemans Relish by Barker, Ronnie
£2.99

Pictorial hardcover with bump at top of spine. Crammed with bygone pictures, charming, grotesque, exciting, and comic.... Read More information

The Official Politically Correct Dictionary and Handbook by Beard, Henry
£1.49

An essential handbook for the nineties, providing a fool proof guard against those politically incorrect faux pas which can ruin social and professional life.... Read More information

A Treasury of British Humor by Bishop, Morris
£14.99

Cream cloth marked hardcovers with red and black detailed titling to spine, bumped at corners and gently bumped top/bottom of spine. Name written at top of first page and top outer edge of book. Collections of poems, plays, stories and more from British humourists from Anonymous to Crawshay-Williams.... Read More information

Russell Brand Articles of Faith by Brand, Russell
£1.99

First Edition. Hardcover with dust jacket, bumped at top back corner. This collection of Russell Brand's columns for The Guardian not only follows the drama and tumult of the domestic and international football season but also a season in the life of one of our most celebrated comic talents. Brand chronicles events both on and off the pitch as he travels between Upton Park and Hollywood. In his ... Read More information

Clarts and Calamities - The Diary of a Peasant Farmer by Brewis, Henry
£1.99

First Edition. Good+ condition. Small mark to base of book. This is the humorous diary of a year in the life of a hill farmer, with frequent disasters and rare triumphs.... Read More information

Nature Notes - The Third Collection by Brookes, Peter
£2.49

Hardcover with dust jacket. In 1996, Political Cartoonist of the Year Peter Brookes launched a series of cartoons in The Times called Nature Notes. A menagerie with a vegetable patch, the world of Nature Notes is a place where the great and the good can and do become the small and the furry: Boris Yeltsin as a Muscovy (lame) duck; Ian Paisley as an Orange-utan (Devours all greenery); and Baroness... Read More information

Made in America by Bryson, Bill
£1.49

An entertaining, anecdotal look at the origins of language and ideas in the USA. Bryson explains why two bicycle repairmen from Ohio succeeded in mastering manned flight, why the assassination of President Garfield led to the invention of air conditioning, and many other improbable but true facts.... Read More information

The World According to Clarkson Volume Two - And Another Thing by Clarkson, Jeremy
£1.79

Hardcover with dust jacket. Jeremy Clarkson finds the world a perplexing place. So much so, in fact, that he wrote a book about it. But despite the appearance of the bestselling The World According To Clarkson, things don't seem to have changed much. And so Jeremy's having another go. In And Another Thing, our exasperated hero discovers that: he inadvertently dropped a bomb on North Carolina; we'... Read More information