Fucking Apostrophes - A Guide to show you where you can stick them by Simon Griffin
Category: Humour | Reading Level: very good
A hilarious, furious and profoundly useful short guide to the most maddening punctuation in English. Apostrophes are an f'ing pain. The rules about how to use them are complicated, and have evolved haphazardly. Originally written as advice by a copywriter for designers -- wont to insert and remove apost ...Show more
The People Next Door (The Ladybird Book of) by Jason Hazeley; Joel Morris
Category: Humour | Series: Ladybirds for Grown-Ups Ser.
THE PERFECT GIFT for anyone moving house or worried what them next door will get up to next . . . 'Logan is reporting his next-door neighbour to the police again. This time, it's for using a hairdryer before 8am. Last time, it was for trespass by blossom. 'You again, ' says the duty sergeant, and gets t ...Show more
The Dog (The Ladybird How it Works) by Jason Hazeley; Joel Morris
Category: Humour | Series: Ladybird How It Works
THE PERFECT GIFT for people who value friendship, uncompromising love, dribble, chewed up furniture and miles and miles of walking to go to the toilet. __________________________________ 'The dog is often called a man's best friend. Dogs are reliable, loyal and loving, like all best friends. They also s ...Show more
The Mum (Ladybird How It Works) by Jason Hazeley; Joel Morris
Category: Humour | Series: Ladybird How It Works
The PERFECT GIFT for Mum would be to let her take the day off while you do everything for her. Why not get her this book instead? ---------------- This is mum. A mum has two very important jobs to do. One is to look after her children. The other is to do everything else as well. ---------------- Now Lyn ...Show more
The Dad (Ladybird How It Works) by Jason Hazeley; Joel Morris
Category: Humour | Series: Ladybirds for Grown-Ups
The PERFECT GIFT for that superhero, saint, figure of worship or, if none of those apply, your plain dear old dad. 'Shawn has set up his own firework display in the garden. "Those big displays are rubbish," he tells his son. "You can't see a thing." When Shawn's son has seen the firework, they will go b ...Show more
Old is the New Young by DAVIS
Category: Humour
'Old age ain't no place for sissies.' Bette Davis TIMELY ADVICE FOR OLD-TIMERS. You've seen it, done it and bought the T-shirt - so isn't it time to show the kids how to party? Here's a book packed with witty quotations to show that while you might have to grow old, you don't have to grow up.
The Mid-Life Crisis (The Ladybird Book of) by Jason Hazeley; Joel Morris
Category: Humour | Series: The Ladybird Book of...
THE PERFECT GIFT for people who ride their Harleys to work while wearing guyliner and winklepickers, even in freezing temperatures. __________________________________ Jason's mid-life crisis started one Sunday morning in B&Q when he spotted a tub of boat varnish. 'I will never own a boat, ' he thoug ...Show more
Where the Wild Mums Are by Katie Blackburn
Category: Humour | Reading Level: very good
The day Mum didn't get dressed and went on strike, Dad called her 'a Wild Thing' and Mum said 'Cook your own dinner' and stomped off upstairs to have a bath . . . In this hilarious, touching homage to Maurice Sendak's Where the Wild Things Are, a worn-out mum finds herself floating across time and spac ...Show more
How to be a Good Wife by Bodleian Library Staff (Editor)
Category: Humour
Don't think that your wife has placed waste-paper baskets in the rooms as ornaments.Don't forget that very true remark that while face powder may catch a man, baking powder is the stuff to hold him. Marriage can be a series of humorous miscommunications, a power struggle, or a diplomatic nightmare. Men ...Show more
Cliches: Avoid Them Like the Plague by Nigel Fountain
Category: Humour
At the end of the day, when it comes to getting your head around cliches, everybody seems to be singing from the same hymn sheet. Cliches have become such a familiar part of the English language and people's everyday speech that many are now trite, meaningless and often quite irritating. This book looks ...Show more
The Trouble with Golf by Garrick Tremain
Category: Humour
Humourous poems about golf illustrated by the author.
Keep Calm You're Only 21 by Summersdale (COR)
Category: Humour | Series: Keep Calm | Reading Level: General Adult
So what if you're now a proper 'grown-up'; after all, with age comes new opportunities, new adventures and a massive reduction in your car insurance bill and you're still nowhere near 30! This book is packed with celebratory quotations to help you shrug your shoulders, blow out the candles and Keep Calm ...Show more