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Genre: Reference, Humour & Gift

Making Soapies in Kabul

Trudi-Ann Tierney

RRP: £12.99

On an impulse, Trudi-Ann Tierney, Sydney producer and former actress, goes to Kabul to manage a bar. She quickly falls into the local TV industry, where she becomes responsible for producing a highly …

Frank Zappa

Barry Miles

RRP: £12.99

Barry Miles knew Frank Zappa intimately and was present at the recording of some of his most important albums. This sparkling biography brings the Zappa the musician and composer, Zappa the controvers …

How to Be Normal

Guy Browning

RRP: £9.99

Normal people are extremely unusual. Think of all the people you know and ask yourself how many are normal. None of them! In fact you’re probably the most normal of the lot and, let’s face it, even yo …

Don't Tell Mum

Emily Monk

RRP: £7.99

Sunday Telegraph Humour Book of the Year Hilarious – Daily MailA hilarious and invaluable insight for gap-year travellers into what to avoid out there.The email home is an essential part of every gap- …

The C.E.O. of the Sofa

P.J. O'Rourke

New York Times best-selling author P. J. O’Rourke lobbed one-liners on the battlefields of the Gulf War, traded quips with communist rebels in the jungles of the Philippines, and went undercover at th …

The C.E.O. of the Sofa

P. J. O'Rourke

In The CEO of the Sofa, P. J. tackles everything and the kitchen sink, fighting evil, injustice, and absurdity with the gloves off and the oven mitts on.New York Times best-selling author P. J. O’Rour …

Moron to Moron

Tom Doig

RRP: £9.99

In July 2010, Tom Doig and his best mate Tama Pugsley cycled 1487 kilometres across northern Mongolia from a small town called Moron to a smaller town also called Moron. Why? Because it was there. Arm …

The Baby Boom

P. J. O'Rourke

RRP: £9.99

A hilarious look at the aging baby boomer generation from the author the Spectator labelled ‘what happens when America does Grumpy Old Men’.The Baby Boom – over-sized, overwrought, overbearing, and al …

Pretty Girl In Crimson Rose

Sandy Balfour

RRP: £10.99

A little gem of a memoir… The book adds up to more than a sum of its parts and lingers in the memory long after the final page. — Sunday TelegraphHalf a million people a day do it in the Telegraph. …

The Illustrated Christmas Cracker

John Julius Norwich

For over forty years, John Julius Norwich has been sending out his Christmas Crackers – a personal collection of quirky quotes and literary odds and ends – to his friends instead of a Christmas card. …

The Twelve Days of Christmas

John Julius Norwich

My dearest darling- That partridge, in that lovely little pear tree! What an enchanting, romantic, poetic present! Bless you and thank you.Your deeply loving EmilyEveryone knows the ‘Twelve Days of Ch …

Why Steve Was Late

Dave Skinner

RRP: £7.99

A laugh-out-loud funny book of excuses for terrible timekeeping. Why Steve Was Late is a book of hilarious (and even – occasionally – plausible!) reasons for tardiness, handily dreamed up by someone e …

I Say Nothing (3)

Sandy Balfour

This delightful book explores the world of the cryptic crossword clue, a place where nothing is quite as it seems. From reflections on his children’s musical tastes (might ABBA be an Old Testament cit …

The Pedant In The Kitchen

Julian Barnes

RRP: £9.99

The Pedant’s ambition is simple. He wants to cook tasty, nutritious food; he wants not to poison his friends; and he wants to expand, slowly and with pleasure, his culinary repertoire. A stern critic …

Rin Tin Tin

Susan Orlean

RRP: £16.99

Rin Tin Tin was born on a battlefield in France towards the end of WW1. He died in 1932, supposedly in the arms of Jean Harlow, the original ‘blonde bombshell’, epic in death as he was in life. In his …

David Boon's Funniest Sporting Moments

David Boon

RRP: £7.99

Boonie is best known as the man who drank 52 cans of lager en route to London to play a game of cricket. Not only did he manage to drink 52 cans but he then went on to play a cracking game. So who bet …

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