Non-Fiction

Synopsis Subtitled : Letters, Lyrics, Routines. Bill Hicks was arguably the most influential stand-up comedian of the last 40 years. He was funny, ...

Synopsis The Transcripts. Peter Cook and Dudley Moore are still commonly regarded as the greatest comic double act that Great Britain has ever pr...

Synopsis Simon Gray is determined to give up smoking. Can he kick the habit of sixty years? Will he, sometime soon, be able to leave his house wi...

Synopsis . . . (when it's in your own head). There are plenty of books out there on how to survive a zombie apocalypse, all-out nuclear war, or A...

Synopsis Subtitled : Owling With Laughter. A bumper collection of the decade's funniest stories, as published every day in The Herald's 'Diary' c...

Synopsis Whether told in the rugby clubs of Wales or the gentlemen's clubs of London, their sharpness and simplicity unites us all. Short, sweet ...

Synopsis Authors : Mike Haskins & Clive Whichlow. The Complete Wrinklies' Armchair Companion contains even more stuff that a wrinkly needs to...

Synopsis Subtitled : "Strictly Unauthorised". What if there's a hidden dimension to Donald Trump; a sensitive, poetic side? Driven by this question...

Synopsis Stephen Clarke takes a penetrating look into those murky depths, guiding us through all the times when Britain and France have been at war...

Synopsis Subtitled : 'or 2000 Years of Upper Class Idiots in Charge'. Many of us were put off history by the dry and dreary way it was taught at sc...

Synopsis Sticklers unite! The Queen of Zero Tolerance takes on the sorry state of modern manners, in the spirit of her three million copy worldwide...

Synopsis The 2014 Private Eye Annual presents the year's best cartoons, jokes and spoofs from the UK's most successful satirical magazine. Illustra...

Synopsis 'Coming from Glasgow, it's weird, I don't really tell jokes, like Irish jokes and all that. I tell wee stories. And some of them don't eve...

Synopsis When she was suddenly given the opportunity of a new life in rural Jutland, journalist and archetypal Londoner Helen Russell discovered a ...

Synopsis A busker is a wee guy (or woman) who plays on the streets for tips. In bands, to busk, means to bluff your way through a song that you hav...

Synopsis This hilarious collection of humorous quotations, full of wisecracks and wit, snappy comments and inspired fantasy, has been specially com...

Synopsis Armando Iannucci cuts straight to the heart of the insanity and sherbet-headed nonsense of modern life. The Audacity of Hype brings togeth...

Synopsis The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work is Alain de Botton's lucid exploration of a subject key to most of our lives Why do so many of us love o...