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Blaikie’s Guide to Modern Manners

By Blaikie, Thomas

The Indisputable Existence of Santa Claus

By Fry, Dr Hannah, Oléron Evans, Dr Thomas

Small Doses: Potent Truths for Everyday Use

By Seales, Amanda

Stephen Fry's Incomplete and Utter History of Classical Music

By Tim Lihoreau, Stephen Fry

The Joy of Small Things: 'A not-so-small joy in itself.' Nigella Lawson

By Parkinson, Hannah Jane

I Can Make You Hate

By Charlie Brooker, Brooker, Charlie

Diddly Squat: The No 1 Sunday Times Bestseller

By Clarkson, Jeremy

How to Live with a Neurotic Cat

By Stephen Baker, Jackie Geyer

The Joy of Small Things: 'A not-so-small joy in itself.' Nigella Lawson: 1

By Parkinson, Hannah Jane

Bart Simpson’s Guide to Life: A Wee Handbook for the Perplexed

By Groening, Matt

The Complete Nigerian: A self-confessed Tale-Bearer's guide book to the doings and misdoings of the Nigerian adult male and female

By Enahoro, Peter

Life in Pieces: From the Sunday Times Bestselling author of So Lucky, comes a bold, brilliant, and hilarious book to curl up with 2021

By O’Porter, Dawn

Scorn: The Wittiest and Wickedest Insults in Human History

By Matthew Parris, Parris, Matthew

You Are Awful (But I Like You): Travels Through Unloved Britain

By Moore, Tim

'The Simpsons Treehouse of Horror: Fun-filled Frightfest'

By Groening, Matt

Car Fever: The car bore's essential companion

By May, James

Men and Collections

By Jenner, Brian

Is Sex Necessary? or Why You Feel the Way You do

By Thurber, James and White, E B, James Thurber

The Wordy Shipmates

By Vowell, Sarah

The Mother Tongue: English and How It Got That Way

By Bryson, Bill

Red Lobster, White Trash, and The Blue Lagoon: Joe Queenan's America

By Queenan, Joe

St Trinian's: The Cartoons

By Searle, Ronald

Sweet Jesus, I Hate Bill O'Reilly

By AMANN, Joseph Minton, Breuer, Tom

How to Appear Normal at Social Events: And Other Essential Wisdom

By Birthday, Lord

Diddly Squat: ‘Til the Cows Come Home: The No 1 Sunday Times bestseller

By Clarkson, Jeremy

The Darwin Awards III: Survival of the Fittest

By Northcutt, Wendy

My Shit Life So Far

By Boyle, Frankie

Kent Book: Graham Clarke's Kent

By Clarke, Graham

The Guinea Pig Diaries: My Life as an Experiment

By Jacobs, A J

IT’S NOT ME, IT’S YOU!: Impossible perfectionist seeks very very very tidy woman

By Richardson, Jon